"If India must rise, she will rise in a most peculiar
way, not hitherto known to all history.
She will combine the virtues of the west and the
east, and will rise superior to both. If the West
and the East are to meet, they will meet in India
and not in Europe.
What a glorious prospect lies before India!
I see India flinging away superstition, sloth and
intellectual inertia, I see her taking up the
scientific spirit and energy of Europe.
I see her assimilating the excellences of both
the East and the West and rising in the scale
of modern nations, preserving all the while the
integrity and the pristine purity of her spiritual
self."Extracted from the article, published in 'Modern Review' magazine
(Calcutta) of September 1912, Pg. 46, by Prof. R. D. Ranade