forbearance has been most praiseworthy and Christ-like. Indeed, it would seem as though they were emulating the chivalry of the great Saladin, who, hearing that his enemy Richard II had lost his horse in a battle, sent him a present of a beautiful charger so that he might continue the fight suitably mounted. But, though I greatly admire chivalrous conduct in all cases where my Muslim brethren have politely ignored the most pointed insults, I cannot say that I feel myself, as a Western Muslim, bound to be equally indulgent to those who are forgetful alike of the ties which bind us to our greatest dependency and those other ties of affection and regard which exist between the branches of the Anglo-Indian Aryan family, and I consider that they should be reminded of the great disservice they do to India by their conduct and, generally, to the Empire to which they belong.
Many quite good Christians assume that their own religious views must be the only ones worth considering, quite oblivious of the fact that other people have intelligence, and that 220,000,000[1] Of the human family worship the
- ↑ The correct figure recently ascertained in 600 million.—Publishers,
