Oriental Religions And Their Relation to Universal Religion, India
The book Oriental Religions And Their Relation to Universal Religion, India was written by author Samuel Johnson Here you can read free online of Oriental Religions And Their Relation to Universal Religion, India book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Oriental Religions And Their Relation to Universal Religion, India a good or bad book?
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Let him suffer, and the nation perishes. The sea fails, the fire goes out, the moon dwindles, if his prayers and offerings for the people cease. He is the producer, the healer, the deliverer : the world is but the outcome of the virtue of which he is the visible sign. He may violate every rule of caste without sin, to relieve himself from extremity of distress : though the king die of hunger, the Brahman shall not be taxed, his contribution being already infinite. He is venerable from his birth... ; though a Brahman be but ten years old, and a Kshatriya a hundred, the former is the father, and all things are his.^ To invest individuals or classes with an exclusive Its mean- divinity belongs to ail forms of organized "s- religion hitherto prevalent in the world. And it is easy to show, in this worship of the Brahman which is i*s typical form, of what folly, superstition, and despotism it is capable. But such criticism, how- ever just, does hot explain the facts of history. We would recognize that sentiment, in itself eternally valid, which found crude and bhnd expression in this old absolutism, so as to give it currency with human nature.
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