44. EAST AND WEST.

We all remember the story of the Sleeping Beauty— how she was shut up by enchantment in a castle where she slept a hundred years, how during that time an impenetrable wood sprang up around her, and how at last she was disenchanted by a fair young prince and married him. India may be likened to that Sleeping Beauty: she has slept very long indeed and thick forests of confusing creeds-social, political and religious have grown up around her. The enchantment that sent her to sleep was Providence itself, the most mysterious of all kinds of magic. When she began to sleep, the fair young prince (the modern civilized world) now wooing her was not on the scene. At present, however, the lover's suit is progressing, the thick forests are clearing away, and the marriage of the east and the west, which promises to come off in no distant date, will be one of the grandest, the most romantic, and the most fruitful marriages known to history.

In obedience to God's injunction, England came and knocked at the doors of India, and said, "Noble sister, rise! thou hast slept too long." And India rose. The invitation was providential and the response too. India rose from her lethargy of ages, and saw the degraded condition into which she had sunk, and asked England for help and the help so much needed has been given.

-KESHUB CHUNDER SEN.

There is a glorious future before the Aryans in

India, now that their activities, dormant for centuries, and threatening to become petrified, are likely to be revived and quickened by the ennobling and elevating many-sided civilization which the Western Aryas have developed, and which is brought to bear upon them.* -M. M. KUNTE.

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The inner spring (of all our exertions), the hidden purpose, not consciously realised in many cases, is the sense of human dignity and freedom, which is slowly asserting its supremacy over the national mind. It is not confined to one sphere of life. It invades the whole man, and makes him feel that individual purity and social justice have paramount claims over us all, which we cannot ignore long without being dragged down to a lower level of existence. The end is to renovate, to purify and also to perfect the whole man by liberating his intellect, elevating his standard of duty, and perfecting all his powers. Till so renovated, purified, and perfected, we can never hope to be what our ancestors once were the chosen people to whom great tasks were allotted, and by whom great deeds were performed. Where this feeling animates the worker, it is a matter of comparative indifference in what particular direction it asserts itself and in what particular method it procceds to work. With a liberated manhood, with buoyant hope, with a faith that never shirks duty, with a sense of justice that deals fairly by all, with unclouded intellect and powers fully cultivated, and, lastly, with a love that overleaps all bounds, renovated India will take her proper rank among the nations of the world. This is

* From The Vicissitudes of Aryan Civilization in India.

the goal to be reached-this is the promised land. Happy are they, who see it in distant vision; happier those who are permitted to work and clear the way on to it; happiest they who live to see it with their eyes and tread upon the holy soil once more.

-M. G. RANADE.

It is from England that all the ideas of Western thought which are revolutionising the country have sprung; the language of Shakespeare and Milton has become the common language of India; the future of India is linked with that of England, and it is to England that India must always look for guidance, assistance, and protection in her need.

-SIR HENRY COTTON.

Fair England! Fortune's darling child!
Dowered with every grace divine,
Amidst earth's dreary, cheerless wild,

Thou heroes' home, and freedom's shrine !
I breathe thy name: my eyes grow dim;
Whilst drop my chains from every limb.

Though mighty thou, and rich and bright,
Though great thy name, and grand thy story,
To raise this land to life and light,

Be still thy aim, 'thy highest glory!

In thy grasp quivers India's fate,

Oh! raise her, bless her, make her great.

From an Ode of Welcome to His Royal Highness the Prince of

Wales, Calcutta.

45. ECONOMY, FRUGALITY, &c.

I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent of liberty and ease.

-SWIFT.

Whilst I wish you to be comfortable in every respect, I cannot too strongly inculcate economy. It is a necessary virtue to all; and however the shallow part of mankind may despise it, it certainly leads to independence, which is a grand object to every man of high spirit.*

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the sister of temperance, of cheerfulness, and health, and profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debts, that is fetters them with irons that "enter into their souls."

Economy is not parsimony; it is separable in theory from it; and in fact it may, or it may not, be a part of economy according to circumstances. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy, if parsimony were considered as one of the kinds of that virtue; there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comprehension, no judgment. Mere instinct, and that

* Advice given by the father of Francis Horner.

not an instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy in perfection. The other economy has larger views. It demands a discriminating judgment, and a firm sagacious mind.

-BURKE.

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The methods of practising economy are very simple. Spend less than you earn. That is the first rule. portion should always be set apart for the future. The next rule is to pay ready money and never on any account to run into debt. The person who runs into debt is apt to get cheated; and if he runs into debt to any extent, he will himself be apt to get dishonest. The next is never to anticipate uncertain profits by expending them before they are secured. The profits may never come, and in that case you would have taken upon yourself a load of debt, which you may never get rid of. Another method of economy is to keep a regular account of all that you earn, and of all that you expend. Besides these methods of economy, the eye of the master or the mistress is always necessary to see that nothing is lost, that everything is put to its proper use, and kept in its proper place, and that all things are done decently and in order.

-SMILES.

Never, from a mistaken economy, buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap; or from a silly pride, because it is dear. Keep an account in a book of all that you receive, and of all that you pay; for no man who knows what he receives, and what he pays, ever

runs out.

-LORD CHESTERFIELD.