The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c3.73

c3.73

The modern world may be said to have thrown out the following challenge to Young India with its three hundred and fifteen million souls: "The number of first class men and women in the arts and sciences, liberal and applied, and in every walk of life, which India can exhibit today must,—on account of the relative strength in population,—be nearly five or six times that of those in England, Germany, France or Japan or three times that of those in the U.S.A. before you can have a legitimate claim to the world's respect. The world does not care to take note of your difficulties and hindrances and to meet you half-way. It is your own lookout to solve them by devising adequate ways and means." The sole mission of Young India is to ponder over this challenge, accept it boldly if possible, and make the necessary preparations to meet the world's demand in defiance of all apathies and antipathies.