Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1914 — The Ancient Brahmins [ARTICLE]

The Ancient Brahmins

The Brahmins were the /lawyers, priests, professors, the sole 4ns true ted class, the sole authorities on tas'e, morality, the sole depositaries of whatever stood in the place of science. Everybody was to minister unto them, everybody to give way to them. The Brahmin was above the daw. He was “not to be subjected to corporal punishment, must nqt be imprisoned, or fined, or exiled, or rdviled.” In the layv of the Vishnu it was written: “The Brahmins sustain the world. It is by the favor of . the Brahmins that the gods reside in heaven.’’ Under English rule and ideas the ancient cast has lost some of its prestige, but is still a forcible remindor ocf its former grandeur.