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We must always remember the natural prejudices of a conquered race towards the conqueror

Date of account: Published 1907
Source: Seen and Unseen
Reference: Seen and Unseen · selected passage 40
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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We must always remember the natural prejudices of a conquered race towards the conqueror. In addition to this, the Hindoostanees consider (and who shall say without ample cause?) that Englishmen are hopelessly "_borné_" and sunk in materialism, incapable of exercising an imagination which they don't possess; with a top dressing of conventional orthodoxy, so far as their own special religion is concerned, but with nothing but ridicule or thinly veiled contempt for the religious channels through which other races may be taking their spiritual food. We have given them only too much reason for these conclusions.

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