DEMOCRACY AND EMPIRE; 'THE APPLICABILITY OF THE DICTUM THAT "A DEMOCRACY CANNOT MANAGE AN EMPIRE" (THUCYDIDES, BOOK III, CH. 37, JOWETT'S TRANSLATION) TO THE PRESENT CONDITIONS AND FUTURE PROBLEMS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, ESPECIALLY THE QUESTION OF THE FUTU

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...to be made a desideratum among the peoples; a high standard of attainment in science, pure and applied, in medicine and in law, to be achieved. All this with a scrupulous regard for the feelings of the people. Such arrangements must be made that the orthodox Brahmin, the sincere Moslem, the devout Buddhist, the earnest Christian and steadfast Jew, the resolute Zoro. astrian, may all partake of the intellectual banquet without jostling each other, or of necessity neglecting the Vedas, the Koran, the sayings of the Master, the Gospels, the Hebrew Scriptures, the ZendAvesta. Among the myriads of India's population we find certain races, the autochthons of the land who, perennially depressed under the Brahmin dispensation, have for ages been regarded as outside the scheme of salvation. Hewers of wood and drawers of waters, the Paraiyas of Madras or the Dheds of Bombay convey a deep and lasting pollution by their touch, nay, more, their shadow. Against them is the chain drawn across the Agraharam, the Brahmin street; to them are allotted all the most repulsive of the tasks incidental to the life of the community; the water of the Brahmin well is not for them; to one dying of thirst such water must be given in a particular way lest the water and the giver be alike defiled by this act of common humanity; no share of the Brahmin's worship is allotted to them; their presence in the sacred fane is a pollution so awful as to be almost unthinkable; prone in the dust they must fall as the Brahmin passes, lest their shadow profane the awful embodiment of divinity. Souls have they none; of humanity, in the eyes of their tyrants, scarce a vestige. It is Britain's self-imposed task to raise these races, to restore to them their self-respect, to replace their servile fear by...
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DEMOCRACY AND EMPIRE; 'THE APPLICABILITY OF THE DICTUM THAT "A DEMOCRACY CANNOT MANAGE AN EMPIRE" (THUCYDIDES, BOOK III, CH. 37, JOWETT'S TRANSLATION) TO THE PRESENT CONDITIONS AND FUTURE PROBLEMS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, ESPECIALLY THE QUESTION OF THE FUTU

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