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not thinking so much of our poor Indian people
who seem to like second-hand articles best,
but of perverse Europeans. The degenerate
progressives among them seem to get furious
when they think of their own splendid past.
They lose all self-control when they hear of
religion, morality, refinement, and decency—
which were the best means devised by the best
human brains through laborious centuries to
raise man from bestiality to a spiritual elevation
pointing towards the supreme good (God)/'

" What the savages of Europe received as
remnants of the culture of ancient Greece was
far more valuable than Europe's heritage of
ruling power from Rome. And what they
received from the East as the shining light of
a higher and purer humanity, was Christ's
message of love and peace—still more precious.
After 600 years his message was renewed
as a more stirring call by Islam, but Europe
did not possess the sense or the patience to
understand it. It did not get any nearer to the
spirit of the Master's Message."
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" We know how Europe gradually bene-
fited by the culture, religion, chivalry and
morals of earlier civilizations coming from lands
which had been the cradle of knowledge and
faith. Its * culture/ compounded of these in-
gredients was once beautiful and exalted and