SOCIAL PURITY
AND
THE ANTI-NAUTCH MOVEMENT.
(1901)
"There is but one temple in the world, and that temple is the body of man"—Novalis.
"The crucial index of a man's character is, as a rule, his relation to the opposite sex."—W. T. Stead.
"The life of the nation depends on the life of the home, and that of the home depends on the purity of the individual."—Dr. Moorhouse, Bishop of Manchester.
"Not to turn human brutal, but to build
Divine on human, pleasure came from Heaven.
Pleasure first succours virtue; in return
Virtue gives pleasure an eternal reign."
—Young.
"Her (the dancing-girl's) blandishments are India's ruin. Alas ! Her smile is India's death."—Brahmananda Kesava Chandra Sen.
