Excerpt from The Religious Problem in India: Four Lectures Delivered During the Twenty-Sixth Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, 1901
Brothers : Among the factors that go to the building of a nation, religion is the one which is the most important, which is the foundation as well as the crown of the national, life. It is indeed at first sight an advantage to a nation, where there is but one faith, but one worship, where the child at every mother's knee learns to lisp the same prayer, to think along the same line of religious faith; but still greater it seems to me would be the triumph of religion, if among a people where faiths are many and where the one God of all is worshipped under different names and by different forms, if such a people could form themselves into a single nation, and find in the many faiths a deeper unity, and in the variations of religions the identity of true religion. If such there could be, as there never vet has been in the world's long history, then it seems to me, indeed, religion would have achieved its noblest triumph, and in the many-chorded harmony of various faiths blended into one melodious whole, the Divine Wisdom would have gained its mightiest triumph, and the Brotherhood of man its grandest and noblest exemplar. Such possibility lies before India, and before India alone among the nations of the world.
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