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{{Style P-Title|From the Caves and Jungles of Hindustan}}
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The peoples of India do not do anything by half: they are either out and out fanatics, or absolute atheists. Their love, like their hatred, is limitless, and when a Hindu calls you, without being forced, a "brother" or "friend", it is not an empty phrase. All of our companions were "reformers" (as they are called here) and long ago broke all ties with the Brahmans and sects, but on the other hand, all of them were mystics, believing in the higher spiritual development of a man, convinced that such a development could put the latter almost on a level with deity, if he is really worthy. But along with the pure fanatics and well-educated, highly exalted (like Narayan) mystics new recruits from the ranks of the students of Charles Bradlaugh and George Henry Lewes school are added to the crowd of "free thinkers" (as they call themselves) every year. Over the past decade, something phenomenal has been happening due to the "beneficent" influence of (rather purely English rather than Western) upbringing: all the students in urban schools and colleges graduate from them being irrevocably atheistic. Exceptions are extremely rare.
The peoples of India do not do anything by half: they are either out and out fanatics, or absolute atheists. Their love, like their hatred, is limitless, and when a Hindu calls you, without being forced, a "brother" or "friend", it is not an empty phrase. All of our companions were "reformers" (as they are called here) and long ago broke all ties with the Brahmans and sects, but on the other hand, all of them were mystics, believing in the higher spiritual development of a man, convinced that such a development could put the latter almost on a level with deity, if he is really worthy. But along with the pure fanatics and well-educated, highly exalted (like Narayan) mystics new recruits from the ranks of the students of Charles Bradlaugh and George Henry Lewes school are added to the crowd of "free thinkers" (as they call themselves) every year. Over the past decade, something phenomenal has been happening due to the "beneficent" influence of (rather purely English rather than Western) upbringing: all the students in urban schools and colleges graduate from them being irrevocably atheistic. Exceptions are extremely rare.