Helots : term of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta; used for all serfs.
... to other domination than her own. It is true that they have taken the bread out of the Indian's mouth that her own children might be filled and seek to turn her dark-skinned subjects everywhere into helots of her commerce and trade,—but they paid down hard cash that her West Indian Negro might be free. It is true that her politicians deny the institutions of liberty to her own subjects, but she has been... rivers, these cities whose life-story goes back into prehistoric night. But do you think that therefore God has utterly abandoned us and given us up for ever to be a mere convenience for the West, the helots of its commerce, and the feeders of its luxury and pride? We are still God's chosen people and all our calamities have been but a discipline of suffering, because for the great mission before us prosperity ...
... grant that they are rude and arrogant, that they govern badly, that they are devoid of any great or generous emotion, that their conduct is that of a small coterie of masters surrounded by a nation of Helots. But to say all this is simply to say that they are very commonplace men put into a quite unique position. Certainly it would be very grand and noble, if they were to smother all thought of their own ...
... rivers, these cities whose life story goes back into prehistoric night. But do you think that therefore God has utterly abandoned us and given us up for ever to be a mere convenience for the West, the helots of its commerce, and the feeders of its luxury and pride? We are still God's chosen people and all our calamities have been but a discipline of suffering, because for the great mission before us prosperity ...
... grant that they are rude and arrogant, that they govern badly, that they are devoid of any great or generous emotion, that their conduct is that of a small coterie of masters surrounded by a nation of Helots. But to say all this is simply to say that they are very commonplace men put into a quite unique position... they are really very ordinary men, — not only ordinary men, but ordinary Englishmen — types ...
... grant that they are rude and arrogant, that they govern badly, that they are devoid of any great or generous emotion, that their conduct is that of a small coterie of masters surrounded by a nation of helots. But to say all this is simply to say that they are very common- place men put into a quite unique position. Certainly it would be very grand and noble, if they were to smother all thought of their ...
... and the violence that was at first engineered at will either against the Hindu minority in Pakistan or against "Hindu" India was ultimately turned against the Muslim "second-class citizens" or "helots" of East Pakistan (Bangla Desh) on the night of 25 March 1971. And the mad Rake's progress of genocide went on for eight months, and it was a singular circumstance that Sri Aurobindo's birthplace ...
... ‘an old lady so called by way of courtesy, and about whom few Indians can really know or care anything,’ nor that he depicted the situation as ‘a small coterie of masters surrounded by a nation of helots.’ It is that he took the standpoint of absolute independence for his motherland at his young age, even when still in England, and when everybody else held it to be ‘an insane chimera.’ Later, Sri Aurobindo ...
... nation or master race ( herrenvolk); the rest of mankind—other countries and peoples—should be pushed back to the status of servants and slaves, mere hewers of wood and drawers of water. What the helots were in ancient times, what the serfs were in the mediaeval ages, and what the Page 119 subject peoples were under the worst forms of modern imperialism, even so will be the entire ...
... nation or master race ( Her-renvolk ) ; the rest of mankind—other countries and peoples—should be pushed back to the status of servants and slaves, mere hewers of wood and drawers of water. What the helots were in ancient times, what the serfs were in the mediaeval ages, and what the subject peoples were under the worst forms of modern Page 7 imperialism, even so will be the entire mankind ...
... nation or master race (Herrenvolk); the rest of mankind – other countries and peoples – should be pushed back to the status of servants and slaves, mere hewers of wood and drawers of water. What the helots were in ancient times, what the serfs were in the mediaeval ages, and what the subject peoples were under the worst forms of modern imperialism, even so will be the entire mankind under the new ov ...
... While charging the generality of British officials .in India with rudeness and arrogance and meanness, while describing their conduct as that of "a small coterie of masters surrounded by a nation of Helots", Sri Aurobindo nevertheless exhorted his countrymen, neither to nurse hatred for the foreigner nor merely cringe before him but rather to seek strength and the clue to salvation within: Our ...
... life story goes back into prehistoric night." He asked a question. "But do you think that therefore God has utterly abandoned us and given us up for ever to be a mere convenience for the West, the helots of its commerce, and the feeders of its luxury and pride?" Sri Aurobindo asserted, "We are still God's chosen people.... The time for our resurgence is come. And no power shall stay that uprising and ...
... is founded. The Moderate does not see that what has been withdrawn from him by the proclamation is no such right as he pretends to have had, but the mere opportunity conceded by the master to the helot to pour forth his unavailing complaint. He confuses sufferance with freedom, the favour of a foreign despotism with the right of citizenship, and his ambition is to win liberty by a whimper. Unless ...
... of the commerce of Great Britain than in isolating itself, even as Great Britain would profit more by an agreement with such an Ireland than by Page 542 keeping her a poor and starving helot on her estate. Throughout the world, the idea and fact of union once definitely prevailing, unity of interests would be more clearly seen and the greater advantage of agreement and mutual participation ...
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