Nivedita, continued....

As much as she always tried to see what was good and positive in the ‘people’, her unfailing motherly instinct, also tried to shield them from all kinds of unkind and unfair criticism by outsiders. This is not because she wanted to hide the truth, but because she knew that shallow and superficial persons would only find it too easy to ridicule and laugh at her ‘people’. She wanted to bar the entrance of such European women who would defile the sanctified ground of her people’s innermost selves.  She lashed out at that particular category of Indians who made a habit of constantly genuflecting in the face of European civilization, shamefully admitting that Indian civilization was far inferior to that of Europe.