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... OPERATIONS . - - - Object of Lecture - INHABITANTS OF INDIA CLASSIFIED - Aboriginals -Their Independence - Modes of Life - Their Rejection of the Brah- manical System - Rude Forms of Religion - Moral Capabilities - Local Superstitions ...
... OPERATIONS . - - - Object of Lecture - INHABITANTS OF INDIA CLASSIFIED - Aboriginals -Their Independence - Modes of Life - Their Rejection of the Brah- manical System - Rude Forms of Religion - Moral Capabilities - Local Superstitions ...
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... of household objects , or those of a more abstract character , denoting the intellectual operations of the mind , he will be struck with the identity of the re- 16 WESTERN AND EASTERN MYTHOLOGIES . spective roots , and.
... of household objects , or those of a more abstract character , denoting the intellectual operations of the mind , he will be struck with the identity of the re- 16 WESTERN AND EASTERN MYTHOLOGIES . spective roots , and.
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... of gods , of the operations of the heavens above , and of the hells that lie beneath ; but not the connected history of the transactions , small or great , which were acted out on ITS OBSCURITY . 41 the soil of India herself .
... of gods , of the operations of the heavens above , and of the hells that lie beneath ; but not the connected history of the transactions , small or great , which were acted out on ITS OBSCURITY . 41 the soil of India herself .
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... OPERATIONS . WE have on this occasion to set forth , not the physical resources of India , but its spiritual destitu- tion . We have to tell you , not of the capabilities of its forests , groves , fields , or mines , to administer to ...
... OPERATIONS . WE have on this occasion to set forth , not the physical resources of India , but its spiritual destitu- tion . We have to tell you , not of the capabilities of its forests , groves , fields , or mines , to administer to ...
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... operation . They probably comprise from fifteen to twenty millions of souls . Do we pity their de- gradation ? Are we indignant at the barbarous insti- titute of caste , whereby they have been consigned to degraded offices , and a still ...
... operation . They probably comprise from fifteen to twenty millions of souls . Do we pity their de- gradation ? Are we indignant at the barbarous insti- titute of caste , whereby they have been consigned to degraded offices , and a still ...
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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...
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