The product of the sums of any nation cannot be the criterion of our judgement of that nation. one may collect the rotten, worm-eaten apples under every apple tree in the world & write a book about each of them & still know nothing of the beauty & possibilities of the apple tree. Only in the highest & the best can we judge a nation- the fallen are a race by themselves. Thus it is not only proper, but just & right to judge a custom, person, culture, concept, ideology & their cousins, by its ideal.   By Swami Vivekananda.