Civilization, if it comes to the Bhil from the East, brings with it child-marriage and Brahman law and caste degradation; if from the West, it brings the factory and the industrial slum. Drunken and thrift-less, oppressed by customs which he cannot understand, he finds himself submerged in the lowest proletariat, exploited and despised. Can civilization give anything to the Bhil better than what he has?--ease and liberty! The Dancing Girl “She measures every measure, everywhere Meets art with art. Sometimes as if in doubt, Not perfect yet and fearing to be out, Trails her plain ditty in one long-spun note Through the sleek passage of her open throat, A clear unwrinkled song: then doth she point it With tender accents, and severely joint it By short diminutions.” _Music’s Duel._ CRASHAW. “Nowadays Indian ‘reformers’ in the name of ‘civilization and science’ seek to persuade the _muralis_ (girls dedicated to the Gods) that they are ‘plunged in a career of degradation.’ No doubt in time the would-be moralists will drive the _muralis_ out of their temples and their homes, deprive them of all self-respect, and convert them into wretched outcastes, all in the cause of ‘civilization and science.’ So it is that early reformers create for the reformers of a later day the task of humanizing life afresh.” _Sex in Relation to Society._ HAVELOCK ELLIS. Chapter VII THE DANCING GIRL