16 April :
16 Apr 1894 : Northampto Daily Herald reports ....The rebuke to the
greed for gain, the national vice of luxury-seeking, self-seeking the
"dollar-caste" sentiment which taints the dominant white European and
American races to their mortal danger, morally and civilly, was only too
just and superbly well-put, the slow, soft, quiets unimpassioned
musical voice embodying its thought with all the
power and fire of the most vehement physical utterance, and went
straight to the mark like the "Thou art the man" of the prophet...
16 Apr 1899 : Letter to Smt Sarala Ghoshal - This impetuous river with
rolling waves which bade fair to sweep away whole hills and mountains —
was a bit of Guru-worship sufficient to turn it back to the Himalayas! I
put it to you, do you think anything great will come of such
patriotism, or any substantial good proceed from such assistance? It is
for you to say; I can make nothing out of it. For a thirsty man to weigh
so much the merits of water, or for a man about to die of hunger to
cogitate so much and turn up his nose at the food presented! Well,
people have strange ways of thinking. I, for one, am inclined to think
that those people were best in a glass-case; the more they keep away
from actual work, the better.
"Love stops not for questions of birth.
Nor the hungry man for stale food."
Nor the hungry man for stale food."
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