| Hinduism Doctrine And Way Of
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DISHARMONIES |
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| As for the
contradictions between religion and that class of worldly activities of intelligent men
called politics, the divergence is even greater than that between science and religion. We
practise the art of holding contrary faiths when professing and expounding religion and
morality as against the principles followed when dealing with affairs of State. We accept
certain firm axioms at one time and expect them to lie dormant in a corner the next moment
when we deal with statecraft. Indeed, it is
generally considered folly for anyone to base the practice of politics on the principles
of religion. Even so good and pious a man as Sir Walter Scott wrote in his personal
journal, "The adaptation of religious motives to earthly policy is apt among the
infinite delusions of the human heart-to be a snare."He meant definitely that
religion and politics had better remain in different pigeon holes and that it would be
folly to attempt to reconcile the basic axioms of religion and those of politics. |
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