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- e * * gion is eithes,adulterated by foreign elements or dissipated and washed out in abstraction if it is not dammed up by the peculia boundaries of national thought and predilection.”— Indian Miror.
“The Hindoo Shastra is infinite and illimitable. We can get every thing in it. We need go to other countries for dress, fin civilization, but we need not necessarily do so for truth. If we can get the nectar of truth by churning the ocean of Hindoo Shastra, then not only we ourselves will drink that nectar but bless our own soms and grandsons as well as all other families in the conntry with draughts of the same. The Hindoo Shastra is like an ocean. There is nothing wanting in it.” (Lecture on Bhakti delivered at Santipore.) The intelligent reader will at once perceive that the last passage is a reflex of the one already quoted from Baboo Debender Nauth Tagore's discourse delivered at the Bllow.unipore Brahmo Vidyalaya. Our friends say: “Hefore the lost decade the Calcutta (?) Brahmo Somaj believed with us in the superiority of Brahmoism over all other systems of faith and the consequent insufficiency of Hindoois a to lead men unto salvation. To day our brethren of the other Samaj declare that not only is Hindooism superior to all other creeds but if is Brahmoism by itself.” We say shal, Brahmoism is Hindooim on the ground that Brahmoism is the highest developed orm of that religion. Baboo Rajnarain Bose in his lecture illus*I this idea by a striking simile. If we again see Ramehundra whom we once saw when he was five years old, after a lapse of 30 is he not the same Kamchandr: still: So though Brahmoism. is not in its entirety the religiou of the Rig Veda, it has as much right to be called Hindooism as the religion of the Rig Veda, 1shdooism in its successive development has given rise to a religion 剃 which is Theism. - Yours truly. & JYOTIRINDRA NATH TAGORE. * Secretary to the Adi-o, thuo , ' ' * - w #, - Fjend of India, October 8 o's
