India Forty Years of Progress And Reform Being a Sketch of the Life And Times
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On account of the complex nature of the social organization, and the long duration of the abuses it has given rise to, the task of reform of even the simplest kind becomes very hard and unpopular. India is rigidly conservative in this respect. Nothing is so popular as the doctrine of laissez faire. Social abuses, which nowhere else would have been allowed to exist for any length of time, have been tolerated here for ages with charac- teristic indifference. Customs with a ruinous tendency, once ...introduced, take root in India, and are surrounded by a halo of authority. If left to themselves, these customs flourish with all the sanctity of religion. In India every custom, however unintelligible or inde- fensible, is sheltered under the name of religion ; and the attempt to reform it is taken as an attempt against religion, and denounced as impious. The priestly class, which wields an authority in social matters that is unknown even in the most priest-ridden countries of the West, stands up for these abuses and objectionable I 2 n6 India : Forty Years of Progress and Reform.
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On account of the complex nature of the social organization, and the long duration of the abuses it has given rise to, the task of reform of even the simplest kind becomes very hard and unpopular. India is rigidly conservative in this respect. Nothing is so popular as the doctrine of laissez faire. Social abuses, which nowhere else would have been allowed to exist for any length of time, have been tolerated here for ages with charac- teristic indifference. Customs with a ruinous tendency, once ...introduced, take root in India, and are surrounded by a halo of authority. If left to themselves, these customs flourish with all the sanctity of religion. In India every custom, however unintelligible or inde- fensible, is sheltered under the name of religion ; and the attempt to reform it is taken as an attempt against religion, and denounced as impious. The priestly class, which wields an authority in social matters that is unknown even in the most priest-ridden countries of the West, stands up for these abuses and objectionable I 2 n6 India : Forty Years of Progress and Reform.
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