hecked, for the spirit is so strong and spontaneous
that it must clearly be directed by Divine Providence.

The following appears In the _Kal_ (Poona):--

We Aryans are no sheep. We have our own country, our
religion, our heroes, our statesmen, our soldiers. We do
not owe them to contact with the English. These things
are not new to us. When the ancestors of those who boast
to-day of their enterprise and their civilization were in a
disgusting state of barbarism, or rather centuries before then,
we were in full possession of all the ennobling qualities of
head and heart. This holy and hoary land of ours will surely
regain her position and be once more by her intrinsic lustre
the home of wealth, arts, and peace. A holy inspiration
is spreading, that people must sacrifice their lives in the
cause of what has once been determined to be their duty.
Heroes are springing up in our midst, though brutal imprisonment
reduce them to skeletons. Let us devote ourselves
to the service of the Mother. A man maddened by
devotion will do everything and anything to achieve his
ideal. His strength will be adamantine. Just as a widow
immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband, let
us die for the Mother.

The _Dharma_ (Calcutta) emphasizes specially the religious side of the
movement:--

We are engaged in preaching religion and we are putting
our energy into this agitation, looking on it as the principal
part of our religion.... The present agitation, in its
initial stages, had a strong leaven of the spirit of Western
politics in it, but at present a clear consciousness of Aryan
greatness and a strong love and reverential spirit towards
the Motherland have transformed it into a shape in which
the religious element predominates. Politics is part of religion,
but it has to be cultivated in an Aryan way, in accordance
with the precepts of Aryan religion.

Nowhere is the cult of the "terrible goddess," worshipped under many
forms, but chiefly under those of Kali and Durga, more closely
associated with Indian unrest than in Bengal. Hence the frequency of the
appeals to her in the Bengal Press. The _Dacca Gazette_ welcomes the
festival of Durga with the following outburst:--

Indian brothers! There is no more time for lying asleep.
Behold, the Mother is coming. Oh Mother, the giver of all
good! Turn your eyes upon your degraded c