In the year 1897, during a lecture at Kumbakonam city in South India, Swami Vivekananda said:

A young English lady once told me: What have the Hindus done? They never even conquered a single race!

It is a curious fact that while nations after nations have come upon the stage of the world, played their parts vigorously for a few moments, and died almost without leaving a mark or a ripple on the ocean of time, here we are living as it were an eternal life· They talk a great deal of the new theories about the survival of the, fittest, and they think that

it is the strength of the muscles which is the fittest to survive. If that were true any one of the aggressively known old world nations would have lived in glory today and we, the weak Hindus, who never conquered even one other race or nation ought to have died out. Yet we live here three hundred million strong.(Now, in 2022, over one billion strong!)