CHAPTER III.
A HINDU REVIVAL Thirty years ago, when I first visited India, the young Western-educated Hindu was apt to be, at least intellectually, _plus royaliste que le roi._ he plucked with both hands at the fruits of the tree of Western knowledge.

Some were enthusiastic students of English literature, and especially of English poetry.

They had their Wordsworth and their Browning Societies.

Others steeped themselves in English history and loved to draw their political inspiration from Milton and Burke and John Stuart Mill.

Others, again, were the humble disciples of Kant and Schlegel, of Herbert Spencer and Darwin.