The dreary alternative of agnosticism, which the young students are taught to accept as the final word of science on the grave mysteries of life and thought, and man's hopes of personal communion with God are laughed away to make room for an inane faith in evolution and the law of collective development and progress.... Hindu students especially need the strengthening influence which faith in God, and in Conscience as His voice in the human heart alone, can give. The national mind can not live in agnosticism. The experiment was tried once on a large scale by the greatest moral teacher of this or any other age. The failure of Buddhism is a warning that such teaching can have no hold on the national thought.


Religion had important place in his life is indicated in his admonishing Professor Selby (also a professor in the Deccan College) notes on a published Notes of Lectures on Butelr's Anaology and Sermons" quoted in pages=105-106

Mahadev Govind Ranade Quotes

The dreary alternative of agnosticism, which the young students are taught to accept as the final word of science on the grave mysteries of life and...

The dreary alternative of agnosticism, which the young students are taught to accept as the final word of science on the grave mysteries of life and...

The dreary alternative of agnosticism, which the young students are taught to accept as the final word of science on the grave mysteries of life and...

The dreary alternative of agnosticism, which the young students are taught to accept as the final word of science on the grave mysteries of life and...