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From:       Coonley <prudence () chtiland ! com>
Date:       2009-09-03 10:33:53
Message-ID: 4A9F9A75.3020505 () synseal ! co ! uk
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Ike to know by what means Mr. Keir Hardie attained to satisfaction on
such a great and important question. Doubtless he had the ungrudging
assistance of Mr. Chowdry. The poverty of India has for a good many
years been a handy weapon, like the sailor's belaying pin, for everyone
who wanted to "have at" our administration of that country; and if "a
lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies," then this one
must be as black as Tartarus, for it is indubitably more than half a
truth. The common field-labourer in India is about as poor as man can
be. He is very nearly as poor as a sparrow. His hut, built by himself,
is scarcely more substantial or permanent than the sparrow's nest, and
his clothing compares very unfavourably with the sparrow's feathers. The
residue of his worldly goods consists of a few cooking pots and, it must
be admitted, a few ornaments on his wife. But a sparrow is usually well
fed and quite happy. It has no property simply because it wants none. If
it stored honey like the busy bee, or nuts like the thrifty squirrel, it
would be a prey to constant anxiety and stand in hourly danger of being
plundered of its possessions, and perhaps killed for the sake of them.
Therefore to speak of a Hindu's poverty as if it certainly implied want
and unhappiness is mere misrepresentation born of ignorance. In all ages
there have been men so enamoured of the possessionless life that they
have abandoned their worldly goods and formed brotherhoods pledged to
lifelong poverty. The majority of religious beggars in India belong to
brotherhoods of this kind, an

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