India wants the sacrifice of at least a thousand of her young men -- men, mind, and not brutes.
The English Government has been the instrument, brought over here by the Lord, to break your crystallised civilisation, and Madras supplied the first men who helped in giving the English a footing.
How many men, unselfish, thorough-going men, is Madras ready now to supply, to struggle unto life and death to bring about a new state of things -- sympathy for the poor, and bread to their hungry mouths, enlightenment to the people at large -- and struggle unto death to make men of them who have been brought to the level of beasts, by the tyranny of your forefathers?
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Alasinga Perumal
from Yokohama, Japan
The English Government has been the instrument, brought over here by the Lord, to break your crystallised civilisation, and Madras supplied the first men who helped in giving the English a footing.
How many men, unselfish, thorough-going men, is Madras ready now to supply, to struggle unto life and death to bring about a new state of things -- sympathy for the poor, and bread to their hungry mouths, enlightenment to the people at large -- and struggle unto death to make men of them who have been brought to the level of beasts, by the tyranny of your forefathers?
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Alasinga Perumal
from Yokohama, Japan
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