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... Deity -- Prac- tical Workings and Issues - Induces the Worship of the several Parts of the Material Universe - The Deification and Worship of Man - Leads to a Mystic Asceticism - GENIUS OF HINDÚ MYTHOLOGY - Its Presump- tion - Impiety ...
... Deity -- Prac- tical Workings and Issues - Induces the Worship of the several Parts of the Material Universe - The Deification and Worship of Man - Leads to a Mystic Asceticism - GENIUS OF HINDÚ MYTHOLOGY - Its Presump- tion - Impiety ...
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... deities had some common original . The seve- ral rites and ceremonies had some common prescrip- tion . The several types of mythological existence . had some prototype . The giants and demons , the gods and goddesses , with their ...
... deities had some common original . The seve- ral rites and ceremonies had some common prescrip- tion . The several types of mythological existence . had some prototype . The giants and demons , the gods and goddesses , with their ...
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... Deity ; and it is their prerogative to rule , teach , & c . The Kshutri , or military class , came from the arms of the Deity ; and it is their duty to protect the Brahmans . Again , the Vaisa , or mercantile class , came from the ...
... Deity ; and it is their prerogative to rule , teach , & c . The Kshutri , or military class , came from the arms of the Deity ; and it is their duty to protect the Brahmans . Again , the Vaisa , or mercantile class , came from the ...
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... Deity . The nations of India are easily classified ; but the several tribes and divisions , with all their definite characteristics , almost defy classification . Fixed here- ditary occupation , and the peculiar exclusiveness of caste ...
... Deity . The nations of India are easily classified ; but the several tribes and divisions , with all their definite characteristics , almost defy classification . Fixed here- ditary occupation , and the peculiar exclusiveness of caste ...
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... deities in whose tem- ples they may not preside must have been objects of a people's worship ere their priestly rulers ... Deity , and the presidents over all that relates to eternity ; but they have occupied every post of honour , civil ...
... deities in whose tem- ples they may not preside must have been objects of a people's worship ere their priestly rulers ... Deity , and the presidents over all that relates to eternity ; but they have occupied every post of honour , civil ...
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Page 37 - If a country remain for a series of years the scene of continued pillage and massacre, so that the villages cannot be inhabited, the scattered villagers nevertheless return whenever the power of peaceable possession revives.
Page 36 - The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything that they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down : revolution succeeds to revolution; Hindu, Pathan, Moghul, Mahratta, Sikh, English are masters in turn ; but the village communities remain the same...
Page 262 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 261 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.
Page 317 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 36 - An hostile army passes through the country. The village communities collect their cattle within their walls, and let the enemy pass unprovoked. If plunder and devastation be directed against themselves, and the force employed be irresistible, they flee to friendly villages at a distance, but when the storm has passed over they return and resume their occupations.
Page 295 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...
Page 331 - Lectures on Christian Theology. By the late Rev. George Payne, LL.D., Professor of Divinity in the Western College. With a Memoir by Rev. John Pyer, and Reminiscences by the Rev.