THE DEEPER MEANING OF THE STRUGGLE. O

•of Physical Science and to show that Science and FaitJb
may be reconciled on a higher plane than any reached as
yet. It is for us to intellectualise and spiritualise the
religious conceptions of the West, and to show that the
true meaning of religious tolerance is not the refraining
from persecution, but the real belief that different religions
need not be mutually exclusive, the conviction that they
are all good roads, suited to the varying capacities of those
that tread them, and leading to one end.

This and much more is our allotted task. Other
peoples have found other work to do, some of which we
may well share, and some leave to those still best fitted to
perform it; but let us not turn from our own task to
attempt the seemingly more brilliant or more useful work
of others. " Better is one's own duty, though insignificant,
than even the well-executed duty of another." Let us not
be tempted by all the kingdoms of the earth ; granted
there is much that we have not, which others have, and
which we may acquire from them; what is the price to be ?
•" "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and
lose his own soul ?"

Think of our duty from another point of view; is not
the ancient virtue of hospitality binding on us ? Yet now
the shame of hospitality refused is ours ; how many have
<eome to India, reverencing her past, ready to learn
of her still, and have been sent empty away ! The student
of Social Economy finds a highly organised society in the
process of disintegration without any of the serious and
constructive effort required for its re-organisation under
•changed conditions; the student of Architecture finds a
tradition living still, but scorned by a people devoted to
the imitation of their rulers, building copies of English,
palaces and French villas in the very presence of men who*