তত্ত্ববোধিনী পত্রিকা ষতঃআমেরিক খণ্ডের সান্নিধ্য সমুদ্রে অনেক मूल्ने इच्न । যখন পুর্ণবস্থা প্রাপ্ত হয়, তখন তাহারদিগের শরীর নুনাধিক ষষ্টি মণ ভারী হয় । তাহারদিগের চৰ্ম্ম প্রায় এক অঙ্গুলি অপেক্ষা স্থল হয়, এবং তাহারদিগের মুখের দুই পাশ্বে এক হস্ত বা তদপেক্ষ দীর্ঘ দুই শ্বেত বর্ণ দন্ত জন্মে ; এই দন্ত দ্বারা তাহারা ভমি বা পৰ্ব্বত হইতে খাদ্য দ্রব্য উৎপাটন করে, এবং তাঙ্গ জলমগ্ন পৰ্ব্বতে আবদ্ধ করিয়া নিদ্রা যায় । এই চৰ্ম্ম এবং দন্ত এবং তাহারদিগের দেহ নিঃসৃত ভৈল দ্বারা মনুয্যের অনেক উপকার হয় । SMMMAMS SSAAAS
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We had occasion lately to take a passing notice of some observations contained in the last number of the Calcutta Review, on the proceedings of the Tuttuload hinty Sabha, and the Menthers of the Brahma Sumaj. An al title in the April number of the same pnblication pl ofessing 1/√treat .)f the “ trunsiti,,1, states · sf the ! i ind.i Mind, also calls for a few renial 1 s from us Not however that we have any doubts respect ing the capacity of the people of this, country to make that progress in improvements, which is apparently the destination of all the nation o the world. On this pot we entil ely concut in opinion with the writer of that pape". Man is a mutable creature and he must everywhere, and at it is times go onwards, or make i retrograde niotios, : tr stand still is impossible foi hita ; and it appears to us to be a proof oi divine providehee, that he is so constituted that his novement backward is always checked by his innate propertsity to run om in the course lying befort: him. The main position of the Reviewel on that occasion was infontrovertille ; but ut proof of his arguments he makes certain allegations against the crevils inculcated in the Vaidant, its forming the belief of the worshippers of the One True God, in spirit, in this country, which should not be passed over in utter silence. We regret that our space will not allow us to enter so fully on the subject, as we could wish, but we should not be doing our duty to our sellow believers, if we entirely omitted to point out some of the fallacies avouched in the article now before us. Our purpose, however, is not so much to answer the arguments contained in the Review as to put the religious opinions cherished by us, and by our ancestors, a few generations back, in a right point of view, before such of our readers, as may not. have made themselv es thoroughly acquainted with them. In our endeavours to spread a knowledge of our ancient theologieak doctrines, we declare our firm conviction in them to be the only inciting principle by which our exertions are guided. We will mot deny that the Reviewer is correcf in remarking that we “ consider the Waids and Waids alone, as the authorized rule of Hindu . l ২২১ theology.” They are the sole foundation of all our belies, and the truths of all other shasters must be judged of, according to their agreement with them. Even the Smrities which are almost entirely founded on the rinciples inculcated in the Vaids, ulust 欄 to their authority, wherever there is the slightest possibility of mistake or misconstruction ; and for this reason, that the Shrootics were uttered by inspiration, while the Siulities contain only an exposition of their precepts. I}us shuns are no more thout philosophical systens, and do not come within the proper sense of religion. What we conside as revelation is contained in the Vaid , alone, and the last parts ofour holy Scripture treating of the final dispensation, of Hinduism, form what is called the Vaidant. The 1¢e., of the eternity of the Wait's mentioned by the Rev ev er, is " 1nprehensible only in a figurative sense, and we have always understood it to signify that the truths of religion are eternal truths. The fact of the contents of the Vaids hat, ing leen res ealed ages after the creation of the won il, has la’en no w lore denied by us and we have always declared that the Rishies spoke by inspiration The falle especting the levelation of the Vaids at tha: time of the ereat i on, and of the: heing uttei ed by the four an uths of Brahma, the personified creative power of iod—of their having their dest ents from the sun, frozu site, &c.—show Joiv the authority of the divine writings by metaphor, and 1 lull the truth: {{rerein taught, had their to mundation in the nature of things as they wel v, 'aird by the Snpreme Being. The Vaids having existed from a time when Irudian literature end, iriticed, till literature, was only (as it were in a state of get minution, it is impossible to prove the divide origin of these sacred works by any historical testimonies, the value of which was n 't understn so at the time; or, inleed, by any other evidence than what they themselves affind by the drift and lendency, the reasonableness and covency, of the doctrines taught in theon. It may be Lserved, however, that the llaridu Scriptures hev e comunandeel the lelief of a tintuet • us rat e of niet not unknown to literary s.l., no in a scient titu, , ; and during a lot,4 stries of age, extending inaco . wards to days of antiquity, of w such soarcely at y nation possesses the slight st memoria!; and tho' there are numerous friulitionis turrent, I, , , among the people of this country and so in, o' the neighbouring nations, which induisita}| f : the character of the siivine is ok. : these {..to; give our early writings it degree of crediiniity at least equal to that to which any ancient hislory cam iay el:tino : f : histo! y 18 not hung hul verbal testun no acquiesced in ly teopol, eapable of appreciating the vaine of truths, and so far as acquiescene goes, the Vaills have the same kind of evidence in their favor in every necessa. ry degree. What progress those who believed in their authority m.ade in the different bronches of profane learning, and whethel they were competent to distinguish truth from falsehood, need not now be enquired if the doctrines of theo. logy, and the principles of morality taught in the sacred volumes referred to, appear to be consonant to the dictates of sound reason and wisdom—isthese tenets and precepts carry the unim
