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स्त्रिया आणि वैदिक संस्कृति. "Subjection to Hindu Law must be deemed to be volun- tary, for the very Nature of the principles to which it has been adjusted, has rendered it incapable of being forced upon any person. No Rule of Hindu Law is opposed to the acquisition of Secular Knowledge, nor to the improvement and enlarge- ment of the accommodation of human life. On the con- tary the rules of Hindu Law, as lead down by Manu, have made it obligatory upon a Hindu to pass the ordinary course of life and follow all fair avocations as a member of an organized or civil society. The active or universal portion of the Supreme Being or Soul, has purposely kept limited the quantity of land as being available, for human purposes, and made human frame comparatively weak, and defective, and endowed a human being with a comparatively very high degree of intellectual powers and faculties both in point of quality and quantity and thus put him in the way and condition to study and acquire the knowledge of the outer physical world of which his own frame forms but a part, and to use the knowledge so acquired for the protective purpose of his secular life and also for the development and attainment of the highest practical degree of inlellectual powers and faculties which directly form part of the Supreme Being pervading the human frame, in order to enable a human being enjoy ultimately the highest pleasure of the Supreme Being, as an active universal existence, by putting himself, as a matter of course, above the usual wants, necessities and limitations of his. mortal frame. As already remarked above, the social