Note 595 — VII. Ostindien. (continued 4)

Wem mein Urtheil zu strenge vorkommt, namentlich im Vergleich mit den üblichen Lobeserhebungen der Reisebücher, der vergleiche Fergusson (S. 5): It is only in India that the two systems can now be seen practised side by side, — the educated and intellectual European always failing because his principles are wrong, the feeble and uneducated native as inevitably succeeding because his principles are right. The Indian builders think only of what they are doing and how they can best produce the effect they desire. In the European system it is considered more essential that a building should be a correct copy of something else than good in itself — — —