India: What Can It Teach Us?

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If then we speak of times so distant as those repre- sented by the Rig-veda, and of a country so disin- tegrated, or ratiier as yet so little integrated as India was three thousand years ago, surely it requires 'but 1 3 2 WHA T CAN INDIA TEA CH US f little reflection to know that what we see in the Vedic poems are but a few snow-clad peaks, representing to us, from a far distance, the whole mountain-range of a nation, completely lost beyond the horizon of his- tory. When we speak of the Vedic h
...ymns as re- presenting the religion, the thoughts and customs of India three thousand years ago, we cannot mean by India more than some unknown quantity of which the poets of the Veda are the only sjx)kesmen left.
When we now speak of India, we think of 250 millions, a sixth part of the whole human race, peo- pling the vast peninsula from the Himalayan moun- tains between the arms of the Indus and the Ganges, down to Cape Comorin and Ceylon, an extent of country nearly as large as Europe. In the Veda the stage on which the life of the ancient kings and poets is acted, is the valley of the Indus and the Punjab, as it is now called, the Sapta, Sindhasa//, the Seven Rivers of the Vedic poets.


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