They tried secular education in France; they destroyed religious teaching; they tried to give morality without religion.

But the moral lessons had no effect: they were too cold and dull, and dead.

Is it not a scandal that in a country like this, where the vast majority are religious, you are quarrelling so much about the trifles that separate you, that the only way to peace seems to be to take religion out of the schools altogether, and train the children only in morality, allowing an insignificant minority to have its way?
Why! we have done better than that in India, we Theosophists.

Hindu Theosophists have founded there a College in which, despite all their sects and all their religious quarrels, they have found a common minimum of Hinduism on which their children can be trained in religion and morality alike.

I grant it was a Theosophical inspiration that began the movement; but the whole mass of Hindus have fallen in with it, and are accepting the books as the basis of education.
Government has recognised them, and has begun to introduce them for the use of Hindus in its own schools.