লাভ করিয়া আসিতেছে। এইরূপ অপূর্ব্ব শিক্ষারীতির গুণেই আমাদের সংসার এখনও এত সুধাময়। এতৎসম্বন্ধে স্বনামধন্যা মার্কিণ-মহিলা “ভগিনী নিবেদিতা” The Modern Review নামক মাসিক পত্রে কিয়দ্দিন হইল এক সারগর্ভ প্রবন্ধ লিখিয়াছেন। তাহা হইতে কতিপয় ছত্র নিম্নে উদ্ধত হইল-
“Great men work out knowledge, and give it to the community. Thus each civilisation becomes distinguished by its characteristic institutions. Nothing could be more perfect educationally than the bratas which Hindu society has preserved and hands to its children in each generation, as perfect lessons in worship, so in the practice of social relationships, or in manners. Some of these bratas—like that which teaches the service of the cow, or the sowing of seeds, or some which seem to set out on the elements of geography and astronomy—have an air of desiring to impart which we now distinguish as secular knowledge. They appear, in fact, like surviving fragments of an old educational scheme. But for the most part, they constitute a training in religious ideas and religious feelings. As such their perfection
