modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one

 race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the

 blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea

 had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be

 followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears

 of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for

 thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when

 even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record,

 and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even

 from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every

 word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it.

 We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and

 that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live....!"