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"exotic fallacy"

Yeats Brown - Lancer at Large - Viking 1937

p 4 - the thoughtful aspect of Benares, brooding by its river

p 13 - Everything that can be done by others, is.

p 69 - India has preserved a truth which we have forgotten, or denied. Knowledge and power may pass from man to man without speech. Our desire to have everything explained and analyzed leaves us with a number of labels but no wiser than we were before. True knowledge is a spark of Inmanent Divine.

p 96-97 There is a reason, there must be a reason why Benares has always attracted the Aryans: buildings crumble, conquerors come and go, the fanatical Aurangzeb builds a mosque to dominate her, the English throw a stark, straight, red iron bridge across her river, but the holy city remains secure in the love of her people, feminine, dignified, serene, mistress of Lord Siva and his worshippers. Egypt, Babylon, and Greece have gone; China is fast changing. Only this Ganges-land remains firm in her old faith and old ways.

How firm? How far is Hinduism adapting itself to modern conditions? Here in Benares, the palaces and pilgrims and shrines and flowers are always the same, though always changing. There