From Our Oriental Heritage page 522:
Doubtless when India was wealthy, sceptics were numerous, for humanity doubts its gods most when it prospers, and worships them most when it is miserable.
Ah, but after listening to the Gods of the Market-Place, men will hear again from the Gods of Copybook Headings:
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall.
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
A perspective understood in the 1930s and before, but lost for the most part amongst the “elites” now.
