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The book has been attempted with a view to combine Hindu religious and ethical training with the western education suited to the needs of the time, it is necessary that this religious and ethical training shall be of a wide, liberal and unsectarian character, while at the same time it shall be definitely and distinctively Hindu. It must be inclusive enough to unite the most divergent forms of Hindu thought, but exclusive enough to leave outside it forms of thought which are non-Hindu. It must avoid all doctrines which are the subject of controversy between schools recognised as orthodox; it must not enter into any of the social and political questions of the day ; but it must lay a solid foundation of religion and ethics on which the student may build, in his manhood, the more specialised principles suited to his intellectual and emotional temperament. It is directed to the building up of a character—pious, dutiful, strong, self-reliant, upright, righteous, gentle and well-balanced— a character which will be that of a good man and a good citizen; the fundamental principles of religion, governing the general view of life and of life’s obligations, are alone sufficient to form such a character.