What did it matter if a few flabby Hindus had preceded him there, and a few chilly English succeeded." "As he strolled down hill beneath the lovely moon, and again saw the lovely mosque, he seemed to own the land as much as anyone who owned it."Islam an attitude towards life both exquisite and durable, where his body and his thoughts found their home.".Here was Islam, his own country, more than a Faith, more than a battle cry, more, much more." The temple of another creed, Hindu, Christian, or Greek, would have bored him and failed to awaken his sense of beauty. "A Mosque by winning his approval let loose his imagination."He has found out our dinner hour, that's all, and chooses to interrupt us every time, in order to show his power.".I give any Englishman two years, be he Turton or Burton. "They all become exactly the same, not worse, not better.It is a tropical pleasaunce washed by a noble river." It is no city, but a forest sparsely scattered with huts. "On the second rise is laid out the little civil station, and viewed hence Chandrapore appears to be a totally different place.Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, welling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life."
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