Word: brahminism
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...political discrimination. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 73, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, heads the other school. He would create jobs in Palestine. Then let Jews migrate and find the jobs. This is rationalistic, the sort of plan one might expect from a Jew who is almost a Boston Brahmin...
...India there exists a class once oppressed and styled "the untouchable" by Brahmin priests, who now enjoy comparative freedom. To them England's rule is obviously preferable. In the north are the Mohammedans sure of a paradise gained across the bodies of dead infidels. Against them, at the present time at least, England's defense is imperative. Practically every great plague that has scourged Europe originated in India; and the scalpel and the microscope of western science would still be a definite loss. The weakness of Mahatma Gandhi lies in his rejection of all western influence, just as the weakness...
...Loyalty to the British Crown is the only thing that forms a bond between Hindu and Moslem, Brahmin and non-Brahmin, Punjabi and Madrassi, British India and Indian States. Destroy that, and you have, by violating the most cherished sentiment of millions, erected an enduring and inseparable barrier to the achievement of a free Indian nationhood! "I can feel no doubt that this demand for independence must do an irreparable injury to India's cause, and sadden the hearts of the wiser of India's sons and friends...
...through the consciousness and personality of a Kellogg, a Coolidge, a Lloyd George or a Baldwin, or through some gentle, strong person fit to express the power of the " strong Son of God, immortal love" ? If the latter, why not a person born of the gentle, intelligent, clean, ascetic Brahmin stock? For if He came as a Protestant, would Catholics accept? If as a Catholic, would Christian Scientists? When last time He came, the Christ worked through a disciple but the Imperial Roman business men ignored Him and the orthodox Jewish theologians murdered Him. I suggest that TIME wait...
...called the Theosophical Society), wound up the celebration of that Order's 50th anniversary (TIME, Jan. 4) by exhorting a public gathering at Adyar (near Madras) to turn their thought toward the far Himalayan heights and beseech the world's Saviour (for her and her followers the Brahmin, Shri Krishna, of 500 B.C.) to hasten his reincarnation and the worlds salvation...