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<center>{{Style S-Small capitals|To the Editor of the “Native Opinion.”}}</center> | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|To the Editor of the “Native Opinion.”}}</center> | ||
{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}},—One who signs himself “A Well Wisher”, in your issue of last Sunday, gives | {{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}},—One who signs himself “A Well Wisher”, in your issue of last Sunday, gives “a hint to the Theosophists.” I would say a few words in reply. Our monitor’s energy centres in his “belly,” by his own confession; he is, therefore, a gastric moralist. Fill his stomach, and he cares not if his head be empty; “the philosophy of the belly is more important than the philosophy of the head.” Pity he were not a London Alderman! | ||
“Why bring you not” he says, “your arts and sciences from America to India? ''If you command influence in your country, better use it in contriving the means of satisfying our immediate wants. Induce your countrymen to send us money and machines, so that our starving young men may be fitted for the business of life, and enabled to succeed in their struggle for existence.''” Struggle for sinecure places under Government, he means, I judge from six month’s experience in Bombay. This is the only ‘struggling’ I have seen going on; unless it be a struggle to spend ten hours in talk to every ten minutes in honest practical work. When I see the first hundred young Bombay Hindus really ‘struggling for existence,’ as every American boy has to struggle lest he starve, I shall be ready to doff my topee to our ‘Well Wisher;’ | “Why bring you not” he says, “your arts and sciences from America to India? ''If you command influence in your country, better use it in contriving the means of satisfying our immediate wants. Induce your countrymen to send us money and machines, so that our starving young men may be fitted for the business of life, and enabled to succeed in their struggle for existence.''” Struggle for sinecure places under Government, he means, I judge from six month’s experience in Bombay. This is the only ‘struggling’ I have seen going on; unless it be a struggle to spend ten hours in talk to every ten minutes in honest practical work. When I see the first hundred young Bombay Hindus really ‘struggling for existence,’ as every American boy has to struggle lest he starve, I shall be ready to doff my topee to our ‘Well Wisher;’ | ||