পাতা:দর্শন দীপিকা.djvu/৬৮

[ ] I | that, however slowly they may move, the journey is not interminable; and that they should, therefore, have ample time allowed them to proceed:— but, if we rashly attempt to urge them forward, with the dread lash of coercion, we shall only impede their progress, hy thus forcing them to stop awhile, to chastise us by Extirpation, as a just return for our temerity. When first I undertook the task of penning my thoughts on this subject; I was chiefly inpelled by the bonsideration that, some local knowledge. necessarily acquired, during a long residence in India, might enable me, not only to throw some light on the Hindoo Character; but, possibly, to suggest how far the introduction of the Christian Religien among the matives óf india, was a measure, cither politic or practicable;—or whether, its interpositiỏn was at all necessary, to thể improvement of the ladian system of Moral Ordinances. - The result will appear in the FIRST PART of this Pamphlet, which I had arranged in its present form, before Mr. Buchanan's Momoir was put into my hands. That Memoir, by taking a more extensive Iange ; introducing a variety of new matter; and