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Title: India and the future
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Archer, William, 1856-1924
Subjects: Civilization, Indian (East Indian)
Publisher: London, Hutchinson
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A Temple Elephant, Trichinopoly. (To face p. 51. TWO SIDES TO THE RACIAL MEDAL they are not usually savage fanatics. Nevertheless, explainand explain-away the custom as much as we please, it marksa low stage of spiritual development. True, it has itsanalogies in civihzed life. There are people in Europe,not even of religious profession, who obtrude their views by wearing some sort of ecclesiastical ornament or badge.I have in my minds eye at this moment a large crossaggressively pendent from the watch-chain of a prominentand rising British poHtician. But to show that isolatedsurvivals of savagery lurk here and there in civilizedcountries is not to prove that a whole population whichplasters itself with religious war-paint* can be placed inthe forefront of human development—or anywhere butsadly in the rear. So, too, the fact that many European women wear ear-rings does not render the jewellery of their Southern Indiansisters any the less hideous. I say nothing of the ankletsand bangl

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