(lxxxii. ) marriage, Kulinism and other abuses that have crept into Hindu society, Ee ridicules bigotry in Swadeshi, frothy oration in political agitation and bloodcurdling words of battle in the mouth of boys who quake in terror at the hooting of an owl or at the sight of its rolling eyes which glare like two balls of fire. His knowledge of even common things seems to go deeper than ours, who move freely among the people of all sorts and all conditions. For instance, how many of us know that the sweet, called Sandesh, so universally used now-a-days, and which every body believes to be of purely indigenous origin, was not known only a few decades hence P In the course of his advice to Swadeshibigots to assimilate every kind of knowledge that foreigners have to teach and to accept every kind of machinery and appliances that they have to give, he mentions a fact that is a startling revelation to us. He relates how a European or Eurasian, named Antony, first taught a man named Bhajna Mayra of Bagbazar to extract caseine (chhana) from milk, and how the various kinds of sweets made from it gradually developed from Manda of former days to Lady Canning of the present time. He has no patience with the folly of those who advocate the boycot of every thing that is foreign. In an imaginary discussion between an educated and an uneducated man, he puts the following into the mouth of the latter 3-'You get yourself deceived if you try to deceive another, It is not right to practise duplicity upon your one people." May be you have a
