Nothing strikes me much more than this, when I talk of the better mind of India--there are subtle elements, religious, spiritual, mystical, traditional, historical in what we may call for the moment the Indian mind, which are very hard for the most candid and patient to grasp or to realise in their full force.
Morley acknowledges the complexity of the Indian mind, shaped by various cultural elements.
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My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
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Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.
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