The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c15.s4.14

c15.s4.14

The “sanction” inculcated here would be called *Bushido* in Japan. This seems to be a chip from the Lycurgan creed followed in the public barracks of Sparta. Or, is it a spark from the *Politics* of Heinrich von Treitschke, or from the British militarist Maude, according to whom "war is an indispensable necessity of human progress," and in whose psychology, the slogan, "first in peace" carries with it as a necessary corollary, the motto "first in war"?