ject of worship is honored by their multiplication. Buddha
is recognized as one of the divine incarnations, and in some sense
Buddha is worshiped. But it must be remembered that even in Jainism
Buddha is only a memory. He has entered into Nirvana, and has passed
out of conscious existence. Now that he has attained that state of
passivity, he has no eye to pity and no arm to save. And yet in this
Jain temple images of Buddha are worshiped, and these images are
numbered by the hundreds.

All this aberration from the truth does not prevent the temple from
being almost a miracle of art. There is a scrupulous cleanliness about
it which differences it from other heathen temples, like that of Kali.
In the Jain temples there are no animal sacrifices, for all animal
life is sacred. But there are little houses for feeding the birds;
larger houses for feeding the beasts; and tombs for departed saints
and teachers. And let it be specially borne in mind that in all the
world there are no more splendid examples of arches, domes, and
shrines, decorated with elaborate and intricate carvings, than are
found here in Dilwarra. Its arabesques of perforated white marble an
inch and a half thick are like lace-work in their delicacy and beauty.
Invention could go no farther in devising an infinite variety of
geometric traceries. We in the West have much to learn from the
artistic genius and labor of the East.

Another day's ride, or rather, another night's ride, brought us to a
city of a very different sort from Jaipur, and to a very different
environment from that of Mt. Abu. It brought us to the busy metropolis
of Ahmedabad. Here is also a city in a state under a native ruler, but a
city so prosperous that native rule is seen to be by no means slovenly
or indolent. On the way from the station I counted eighteen lofty
chimneys belonging to manufacturing establishments. There are eighty
factories in this busy center, chiefly connected with the cotton
industry. In this industrial expansion is revealed the solution of many
of India's financial problems. The population is now too exclusively
employed in agriculture, and its manufactured articles are imported. But
the rains are so uncertain that the farmer's subsistence is precarious,
and famines claim thousands of victims. Hence, next to Christianity,
India needs industrial development. This has been the view of recent
British governors. Better methods of irrigation and of cultivation have
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