Word: india
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...India, he said, religion has a different meaning from what it has in other parts of the world. Life there is not divided into two distinct phases, secular and religious. Religion is everything, embracing every department of life. Religion is not scientific, nor is science religious; they are identical. The essentials of such a life are, right knowledge, right belief and right conduct. The ethical code of right conduct. The ethical code of right conduct in India has a scientific basis. The results of every act of a man's life are carefully weighed and analyzed. Immortality of the soul...
...over the world. That employed by the western world during the last century has been wrong in several respects. Its most grevious blunder is that it offers dogmatic terms of salvation to unbelievers, and proceeds upon the basis that all men are conceived in sin. The religion of India, on the other hand, is built upon the foundation of of good and truth in every man. This kind of missionary work, if it were universal, could not fail of success...
Virchand R. Gandhi of Bombay, India, will lecture in Sever 11, March 21, under the auspices of the Harvard Religious Union. Mr. Gandhi is a brilliant lawyer of Bombay, and Honorary Secretary of the Tain Association of India, by which he was elected delegate to the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893. He is a man of strong personality and of great intellectual ability. Mr. Gandhi will lecture upon some subject connected with the religions of India...
...Irrigation is perfectly possible. - (a) There is plenty of water if it can be properly managed: Forum, XII, 745. - (b) Nature of soil is favorable; Forum, XII, 745-6. - (c) Conditions of India, where it has succeeded are similar: Wilson...
...Unwisely increases the civil service. - (c) Would divert public attention from more pressing questions. - (1) Finance. - (2) Tariff. - (3) Labor. - (d) Irrigation might be introduced for political motives. - (e) Gov't construction is usually lavish: Forum, XII, 740. - (f) Gov't control not economical: ibid. - (g) Example of India not applicable: Whitney's "United States...