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( 13 ) er:lightened Brahmins declare their belief Na his existence alone, and worship him as the father and preserver. of the universe. . They ascribe to him those natural and moral attribute which true religion declares the Deity to posses; and from a considération of these attributes, and of the relation in which mankind stand towards him, as his rational offspring, they have deduced the most acceptable mode of worshipping him. As God’ say they is immaterial, he is above all conception; as he is invisible, he can have no form; but, from what we behold of his works, we may conclude that he is eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and outnipresent; and that it is only by sanctity of heart and purity of manners that men can expect to gain the approbation or secure the favour of a Being, perfect in holiness.’ Such are the elevated sentiments inculcated in the Vedas or sacred books of the Hindôos and, as we have observed, entertained even at this day by some of the Brahmins. Were we to form from them our opinion of the Hindoo religion, we shall dignify it with the appellation of Deism.” A. Sketch of the State of British India, by, the Rev. James Bryce. “The only sphere where the Indian mind found itself at liberty. to act, to create and to worship, was the sphere of religion and philosophy; and nowhere have religious and metaphysical ideas struck roots so deep in the mind of a nation as in India. The Hindoos were a nation of philosophers. Their struggles wert, the struggles of thought; their past, the problem of creation; theiro future, the problem of existence.” History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature by Max Müller, page 31. “We must not compare the Aryan and the Semitic races. Whereas the Semetic nation relapsed from time to time into polytheism; the Aryans of India seem to have relapsed into monotheism.” Ibid, P. 559. אי “I add only one more hymn in which the idea of one God is - expressed with such power and decision, that it will make us. hesi