To my mind, the one great cause of the downfall and the degeneration of India was the building of a wall of custom --
whose foundation was hatred of others -- round the nation …
… … the inevitable result -- the vindication of the moral law, that none can hate others without degenerating himself -- is that the race that was foremost amongst the ancient races is now a byword, and a scorn among nations.
We are object-lessons of the violation of that law which our ancestors were the first to discover and disseminate.
Give and take is the law …
- Swami Vivekananda,
Written from Chicago (Sept 1894)
whose foundation was hatred of others -- round the nation …
… … the inevitable result -- the vindication of the moral law, that none can hate others without degenerating himself -- is that the race that was foremost amongst the ancient races is now a byword, and a scorn among nations.
We are object-lessons of the violation of that law which our ancestors were the first to discover and disseminate.
Give and take is the law …
- Swami Vivekananda,
Written from Chicago (Sept 1894)
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