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22 Dayanada
and
Arya Samaj
To these let us add philanthropic activities such
as orphanages, workshops for boys and girls, homes
for widows, and great works of social service at the
time of public calamities, famine etc.
I have said enough about this Sanyasi with
the soul of a leader, to show how great an uplifter of
the peoples he was in fact the most vigorous force
of the immediate and present action in India at the
moment of the rebirth and reawakening of the
national consciousness. His Arya Samaj whether he
wished it or not prepared the way in 1905 for the
revolt of Bengal. He was one of the most ardent
prophets of reconstruction and of national
organisation. I feel that it was he who kept the vigil;
his purpose in life was action and its object his nation.
For a people lacking the vision of wider horizon, the
accomplishment of the action and the creation of
nation might perhaps be enough. But not for India—
before her will still lie the universe.
culture, vivified by moral energy. There is
also
a great
college for girls in the Punjab, where feminine subjects and
domestic economy are united to intellectual studies and
the knowledge of three languages—Sanskrit, Hindi and
English.