Indian civilisation in all its branches,—­religion, education, art, industry, home life and government,—­is healthy, spiritual, beautiful and good.  It has become corrupted in the course of centuries, but that is largely the result of the cruelty and aggression of the Muhammadans in former times and now of the British.  The Indian patriot must toil to restore Indian life and civilisation.

Western civilisation in all its parts,—­religion, education, art, business and government,—­is gross, materialistic and therefore degrading to India.  The patriotic Indian must recognise the grave danger lurking in every element of Western influence, must hate it, and must be on his guard against it.

India ought to be made truly Indian.  There is no place for Europeans in the country.  Indians can manage everything far better than Europeans can.  The British Government, Missions, European trade and Western influence of every kind, are altogether unhealthy in India.  Everything should belong to the Indians themselves.

Hence it is a religious duty to get rid of the European and all the evils that attend him.  The better a man understands his religion, the more clear will be his perception that Europeans and European influence must be rooted out.  All means for the attainment of this end are justifiable.  As Krishna killed Kamsa, so the modern Indian must kill the European demons that are tyrannically holding India down.  The bloodthirsty goddess Kali ought to be honoured by the Indian patriot.  Even the Baghavad Ghita was used to teach murder.  Lies, deceit, murder, everything, it was argued, may be rightly used.

Not till some years later did a Committee, presided over by a British High Court judge sent out from England for the purpose, fully explore the many ramifications of a revolutionary movement which had one of its head centres in London, until the murder of Sir W. Curzon-Wylie by an Indian student during a crowded reception at the Imperial Institute aroused the attention of the authorities to the activities of the “India House,” and Mr. Krishnavarma, its familiar genius, had to transfer to Paris his notorious paper, the Indian Sociologist, in which he openly glorified murder.  The “Sedition Committee’s” Report was only made public in 1918, and if the action taken upon it by the Government of India was to furnish the occasion for another popular explosion different in character from, but no less formidable than, the explosion which followed the Partition of Bengal, the facts which it marshalled and the conclusions which it drew from them with judicial soberness have never been seriously challenged.  It found that the long series of crimes of which it recorded the genesis and growth had been “directed towards one and the same objective, the overthrow by force of British rule in India,” and nothing revealed more clearly the mainspring of the movement than the