My Own Life In India,

The True Basis Of Morality Is Utility; That Is, The Adaptation Of Our Actions To The Promotion Of The General Welfare And Happiness; The Endeavour So To Rule Our Lives That We May Serve And Bless Mankind.

Refusal To Believe Until Proof Is Given Is A Rational Position; Denial Of All Outside Of Our Own Limited Experience Is Absurd.

We Have No Right To Pick Out All That Is Noblest And Fairest In Man, To Project These Qualities Into Space, And To Call Them God. We Only Thus Create An Ideal Figure, A Purified, Ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

All Men Die. You May Say: 'is That Encouraging?' Surely Yes, For When A Man Dies, His Blunders, Which Are Of The Form, All Die With Him, But The Things In Him That Are Part Of The Life Never Die, Although The Form Be Broken.

Men Are At Every Stage Of Evolution, From The Most Barbarous To The Most Developed; Men Are Found Of Lofty Intelligence, But Also Of The Most Unevolved Mentality; In One Place There Is A Highly Developed And Complex Civilisation, In Another A Crude And Simple Polity.