A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"4DR. PAUL DEUS8EN. 57 &Vedanta.. He never stops to think about the What theywou 1^ say"of the vast majority of scholars. We indeettrequire bold mfcn to tell us bold words about ttuth in thi sVorld ;and nowhere is this more true now than in Europewhere, through thfe fear of social opinion and such othercauses, there has been enough ^inall conscience of thewfciti*vashing and apologisingattitude among scholarstoward creeds and customs, which, in all probability, notmany among them really believe in. The greater is theglory -thsjefore to Max Muller and to Deussen for theirbolS and open advocacy of truth !May they be as bold inshowing to us our defects, the later corruptions in ourthought-systems in India, especially in their applicationto* our social needs. Just now we very much require thehelp of such genuine friends as these to check the growingvirulence of the disease, very prevalent in India, ofrunning either to the one extreme of slavish panygeristswho cling to every village superstitionas the innermostessence of the Sastras, or to the other extreme ofdemoniacal denouncers who see no good inus and in ourall thehistory, and will, if they cnn^at once dynamitesocial and spiritual organisationsof our ancient land ofreligion and philosophy.