The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c22.23

c22.23

Europe is now witness to the demoralising effect upon a great nation of a perverted philosophy which glorifies brute force as a symbol of kingship and manhood, and does not disdain to propagate it by crimes which disgrace the name of civilisation. When the intellectuals of Germany are allowed to see a glimmering of truth they may begin to find the spiritual philosophy of the East of more service to humanity than their poisonous scientific "culture," and recognise in Asoka, Vikramâditya, and Akbar a nobler ideal of kingship than that which is now held up to them.