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Show IE)N PIT OP CASTE 1. ! ! ) In Whic, Unfortunate Hlndui Imrisoned for Generations.-' OI the Wlan system of caelf. Cbftrlet ward llusjll writes In Everybody'!: 7; "On thl basis Js the EOclal rtruotur imlla erec!fj-the men that work branded an Ineffaablft slsn of Infamy, the t nnd loafet txalicd to th highest honor;: between tsm art frmdntlons of st&te in' portion li Idleness and loafcrlein. The : sreat dlvfon were originally the Brahi or prlesteihe warrior, the farmers and t ; ere. and te Sudras, who were wrfa an I ,?rffri Jch of theM classes hoa btn " divided t many nddltlonal lines, but sre.it mnl boundaries have not bea cha , In two Ousjmd years. Persons in can can haveno association with persona la other clal on pair, of penalties thai to H Ideas ar(not short of death. Arrttag etrsita. os above the other, each claw1 reverenc(to all classes above it ad des or abhor, all claeaes beneath It. "No pyoa born In one of thesa cUaat bv eny ofslbllitj- ralsa himself to a hi class. Nt learning, nor wisdom, nor ae rnerit. r.t benevolence, nor creation in lltoratur) nor discovery, nor service- 1 times, a- even any aceniauUllon of dollars n better his .class station. Ai was borl so he remains. Ho Is of tho i of his Jjher and grandfather: hit ton his ffrarsona forever will bt of thai cla, witever It may be, He can An himself a lower, he cannot lift hlmse n. hRhe class. A custom hard as Iron certain j fate fixes his station with hla b nnd froj that station there Is absolutely upward l-ay. He must not marry rtflr friend itstde hie class; nor aspire, nor fc his cht.Len may fare better than he-fared. he-fared. was born In a pit with srtdea net he norfny descendant of- hla shall scale long; aajhe system remains." |