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an exclusive superiority to its own function and constitution, treats other parts and their functions with contempt or indifference and sternly refuses to co-operate with them, it requires no great wis- dom to say what the result would be; surely a general breakdown will overtake the whole body, every part of it suffering most acutely with every other part from the effects of the disintegrating process that has set in one particular part. Similarly if the limited number of the Hindu people who call themselves brahmins, not on account of any superior merit which proves that they alone possess it in pref- erence to others, but on account of mere birth as well as of con- ventions they have, with no good motive, created among them- selves, go on most unreasonably claiming all high privileges exclisively to themselves, to the detriment of the teeming millions who do all sorts of useful work but not caring for their uplift and welfare, certain it is, as night follows day, that this comparatively insignificant number of people would be wiped out of existence in a few centuries. The Hindu nation does not at present live - even if we suppose it to have been in the hoary past, in complete isolation in a remote corner of this globe, cut off from all communication with the rest, but it does live in so close a contact with several great nations widely differing close a contact with several great nations widely differing from it in language, religion, customs, man- ners and so on, that it can no longer hope to remain unaffected by their influence. Except the Hindu, all others are progressive especailly the English whose advancement in the knowledge of arts and industries, of social, moral and religious principles is sim- ply marvellous. Besides being unprogressive, the Hindu society is torn to pieces by numberless caste distinctions nurtured by vanity, selfishness and rank ignorance. That this type of weak and degenrating society cannot hold its position long by the side of a strong and fast progressing nation like the English but must before its assimilating power so as to be absorbed by it finally, is clear from the luminous exposition bestowed on the subject by Benjamin kidd. He says: "The Anglo-Saxon has exterminated the less devel- oped people with which he has come into competition even more effectively than other races have done in like case; not necessarily
