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aythat the great mass of humble structures,built by people who could not afford eitherlasting materials or decorative schemes inconstruction, is to be taken as examples ofa peoples faith. The poorer classes in Indiahave had to be content with palm-thatchhuts, or simple houses of mud and brick… … A man may have a humble home to househim, but his temple must be worthy to househis gods. The poor have always given freelyto their churches, and in India this is espe-cially true, and so the magnificent temples in India are gorgeousexamples of construc-tion, intricate carving,and decoration,…
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