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Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

Keshub Chandra Sen
Country, Character, Evil
Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London, May 24, 1870.

If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded, it becomes valuable in the eyes of all, and everybody is encouraged to pursue that course in which merit obtains its due reward.

Keshub Chandra Sen
Eye, Rewards, Merit
Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London, May 24, 1870.

Let brothers and sisters from one end of the world, speak in all brotherly love, all affection, and one sweetness, to their brothers and sisters in the other extremity of the world. Then we shall succeed in rearing up one vast cathedral in this world, where men of all nations and races shall glorify the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

Keshub Chandra Sen
Brother, Men, Race
Sermon preached at Mill-hill Chapel, Leeds, August 28, 1870.

Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.

Keshub Chandra Sen
Prayer, Heart, Mean
Sermon at Hackney Unitarian Church, London, April 24, 1870.

The true object of religion is to bind mankind together, and to bind them all to God. If we see that in the name of religion, men, instead of promoting peace on earth and good-will among men, are trying to show their antagonism and animosity towards each other, then certainly we must stand forward with our voice of protest, and say that religion is defeating its own legitimate object.

Keshub Chandra Sen
Men, Names, Voice
Speech delivered at Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London, in a meeting held to constitute a Theistic Association in London, July 20, 1870.

The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose, conscientious strictness, noble charity, practical duty, whilst the truths which I find peculiarly developed in India - developed to a greater extent than anywhere else, - and in the Eastern countries generally, are those which have reference to sweetness of communion, sweetness of temper, meekness and resignation unto God.

Keshub Chandra Sen
Country, Character, India
Parting words at Southampton, September 17, 1870.

Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all.

Keshub Chandra Sen
Exercise, Vivekananda, Genuine
Quoted by Charu Chandra Banerjee in a speech at Dhaka Purva Bangla Brahmo Samaj; "Brahmananda Keshub Chunder Sen: Testimonies in Memoriam" compiled by G.C.Banerji, Allahabad, 1934.

The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that the error and prejudice will always maintain their power, and while you do not uproot those prejudices from the hearts of the masses, a handful of educated Hindus will never be able successfully to reform the country.

Keshub Chandra Sen
Country, Heart, Errors
Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London, May 24, 1870.

Bombay is far ahead of Bengal in the matter of female education. I have visited some of the best schools in Bengal and Bombay, and I can say from my own experience that there are a larger number of girls receiving public education in Bombay than in Bengal; but while Bengal has not come up to Bombay as far as regarded extent of education, Bengal is not behind Bombay in the matter of solidarity and depth.

Keshub Chandra Sen
Girl, School, Numbers
Speech delivered at the East India Association, London, May 13, 1870.

Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.

Keshub Chandra Sen
India, English Education, Distinction
Speech at Hannover Square Rooms on the occasion of a Soiree held to welcome him, April 12, 1870.

My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.

Keshub Chandra Sen
Brother, Prayer, Philosophy
Sermon at Hackney Unitarian Church, London, April 24, 1870.

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