No Hindoo can mix at meals even with those on whom he depends for the meat he eats.

This circumstance renders it difficult for us to enter with due sympathy into their concerns, or for them to enter into ours, even when we meet on the same ground.

But there are other circumstances which render our intercourse, in our mutual relation, very full of difficulty.

The sea is between us.
The mass of that element, which, by appearing to disconnect, unites mankind, is to them a forbidden road.

It is a great gulf fixed between you and them,--not so much that elementary gulf, but that gulf which manners, opinions, and laws have radicated in the very nature of the people.