35 2 A Sportswoman in India 



resources at his command. Nature is a good servant 

 but a bad master. 



Salvation for Asia lies in the increase of know- 

 ledge, since " the totality of human actions are, 

 from the highest point of view, governed by the 

 totality of human knowledge" knowledge, particu- 

 larly in the branch of physical science, which strikes 

 at the root of superstition, and induces scepticism ; 

 and toleration. This fact, it is reassuring to see, 

 is being brought home to the missionaries in India : 

 they are learning that religion, literature, and 

 legislation are but secondary agents in civilisation ; 

 the progress of knowledge comes first, and the 

 all-important possession is the number of truths which 

 the human intellect possesses, together with the extent 

 to which those truths are diffused. 



Until knowledge is widespread, there will still 

 ring in our ears the cry of the Purdah women, there 

 will still rise before our eyes revolting sights, and 

 two hundred and eighty millions of degraded humanity 

 will still walk God's earth. 



