INDIA AS THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9154, 30 July 1908, Page 4

INDIA AS THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD.

The Hon. Alex. Del Mar, writing in the "Indian Review" claims that nearly everything on which the Western world prides itselt was originally introduced fro in India. The vine ?ame from the base of the Himalayas-; the olive and the fig, mustard and indigo, muslin and silk all came from India. All the simples and drugs of Egypt, Greece and Rome were imported from India. The invention of felted paper is Chinese, and of ink is Indian. The incense-bearing plants, frankincense, myrrh, and the balsams, employed in the religious ceremonies of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Greece arid Rome, all of them, even the powers U3ed in temple decorations,th.; rose of Miletus, the rose of Pangaeus, the roses of Jericho, of Damascus, of Alabanda, the lily of $ Persia, the lotus, saffron, and hyacinth came originally from India The horse also came from Asia. Tin came directly from India. Iron was made in India long before it was known in the West. But it was not merely in the industrial arts that India and China led the Western world; they led it in astronomy, medicine, the graphic arts, anj in legislation.