From immemorial times India has been the meeting place of conflicting races and civilizations
From immemorial times she has tried to achieve a unity for heterogeneous elements
that make up the totality of her life.
Hers is perhaps the oldest civilization with uninterrupted history . Most of her contemporaries have ceased to exist . She has not only survived but maintained and developed a continuous culture . Different races have met fought and fraternized her soil . She has absorbed all of them in her blood . Many conflicting cultures have struggled for supremacy . She has ground and modeled her into her own likeness . Foreign truths and races have alike been grist to her mill. Their struggles have ended in a new synthesis that marked high levels of achievement for the human species. She has lived through the recurrent center of war and pestilence. Triumphed over natural calamities and misrule.
Whence this vitality that overcomes destruction and death?
Whence this wisdom that reconciles opposing truths?
The story of India 's culture unravel the seccret of that vitality and that wisdom .
-Our Heritage(1943)
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