New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-19

out to the really imperialistic races OF ASIA ana
politcaI authority was centralized In lnd'a only
bv successive invaders. Brahmansm remained
supreme and It wor IFS victory. for the Aryah
| OF India Is Aryan still. after no man KNOWS no"
| MANY centuries Of contact with parparisn
Every attempt to rule India from the time OF
Alexander to the present day has faileu' De-
cause II either ignored or resisted THIS potent
despair Of the Aryan. The instructive eHor' u
preserve the dominant race had Its moral eHec'
Where II failed the downfall was significant.
To give up the idealism and mysticism winch
Il cherished was to fail into n realism equally
,ncor,nrebensihle TO the West The tendency
NJ the whole literature" says Mr.. Frazer. was
10 sink lower and lower into the abyss OF lewo
,maeinines and sensuous fances The outward
and popular expression Of the same realistic
tendency took the form OF foul Tautrc orgies
until at length literature and religion dragged
down In their fall all the best on which they
were founded
Manifestly there ought to be solution OF the
problem which Buddhism aimed to solve
Akbar thought he dscerned II In Mahometanlsm
with Mahomet left out. He aimed TO create
a religion wide enough for all the races IN MS
empire The brilliant literature or his age SHOWS
that his effort to stir Indian thought was
neither weak nor shallow. But Brann'an's'''
went its own way unmoved
Akhar cared nothing for the Aryan. But
England must care The problem for her IN
India. as Mr.. Frazer puts IT, seems to be to
preserve the Aryan tradition and culture and 10
develop these without pandering to Aryan preju-
dice and exclusiveness. Difficult as the TASK
must always be. even II for the present 1t be
not altogether impossible to ascertain in how
far the literature. architecture. science ana re-
ugons Of India have been moulded or impressed
bv foreign inhuence-Accadian. Macedonian.
Scythan Mahometan Mugha or Portuguese
still more difficult is IT TO discriminate III now
far British rule in India has worked to"aru
implanting new ideals destined TO advance the
moral and intellectual condition of the people.
Politically legally and socially, Brahmanism
gained a victory under Warren Hastings when
was not an unmxed good. The acceptance OF
the Brahmanic law books as final retarded the
whole transition OF society from It's ancient CON
dition to that Of an advancing civil community
There is the ever-present danger OF religious
movement of such force that it cannot be re-
sisted. But year by year this danger Is imper-
ceptibly Iessened. Akbar was alone When he
died his work died with him. But England
wisely renews her youth in India resisting the
climate not by leaving her sons TO accommo-
date themselves to 1t. but by continual rein
sorcements Her efforts are not relaxed for a
day Gradually all the ancient culture OF India
is coming to understand this new conquest II
is not Ike the Mogul Capitalization. 1t has all
the diffusive capacity OF Brahmanism itself.
1t meets the Indian thinker as readily as the
Indian warrior and the Indian thinkers are
gradually becoming It's emissaries. Year by
year the leaders Of Indian thought In India
| spread their influence over ever widening cir
cles What the final result may be when these
| leaders, infused with all the best of the spirit
| OF the East and West. rise up 10 proclaim that
East and West have met and from the union
new forms of thought modes Of artistic
expression. new ways Of viewing life. new solu-
tons Of religious social and moral problems
have been produced, is one that the whole past
history of the world teaches us Is to be awaited
with hope not fear or doubt"