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It may be one of the mysteries of divine purpose why a mere handful of Englishmen who were a 15,000 mile sea journey from home and help were able to conquer within a few years one of the world's most extensive empires. It may be that we shall never learn why the gods that govern destiny literally gave India into our hands. But what is plain to see is that one consequence has been to bring Indian religious and philosophic knowledge before Western truth-seekers at an earlier date and in greater fullness than could have happened normally.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 37