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7. Let me without sin, give satisfaction to the angry god, like a 

 slave to his bounteous lord. The Lord God enlightened the fool- 

 ish ; He the wisest, leads his worshippers to wealth. 



8. O Lord Varuna, may this song go well to thy heart ! May 

 we prosper in keeping and acquiring ! Protect us, O Gods, always, 

 with your blessings." 



It only remains for me now to ask : — Why this great difference 

 to-day between us, the children of the westerly branch of the 

 Aryan family, and those Hindoos who are the children 

 of the easterly branch ? Whence has our superiority come ? 

 The answer is simply this. As our forefathers came westward 

 they came in contact with that branch of the Semitic family» 

 through which the world's best light and the fundamental 

 principles of the highest civilization have been received. 

 Whereas the portion of the Aryan family that went eastward, 

 travelled farther and farther from the great centre of the world's 

 light, and hence their inferiority. Let us talk no more then of the 

 inherent superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race, and of the high destiny 

 which as a matter of course awaits the nation that has Anglo-Saxon 

 blood in its veins. Our blood is the same as flows in the veins of 

 idol-worshipping Hindoos. Let us remember that it is only by 

 what may be termed an accident that we differ from them. Had 

 our forefathers happened to go eastward, and theirs to come west- 

 ward, they would have been the Christians and we the heathens. 



Let our hearts warm towards these Hindoos ; they are our own 

 kith and kin. Let us cast oiir thoughts back to the time when 

 their father and ours were brothers, dwelling peacefully together 

 beneath the same roof in the delightful old Aryan home. When the 

 two boys left home, the one to go east and the other west, I fancy 

 they kissed each other at parting, the same father gave them both 

 his blessing, the same sisters wept upon their necks, and the same 

 mother looked long after them as she saw them taking each his 

 several way. These two boys travelled far apart, the one to make 

 his home in the extreme west of Europe, on the shores of the 

 Atlantic, the other to make his home on the Indian Sea, in the cen- 

 tral peninsula of Southern Asia. And between their children some 

 of the fiercest and bloodiest battles on record have been fought. It 



