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in learning from us where we are qualified to teach ; and in offer * rag us the noblest lesson of forbearance wherever repentance would beseem us better than triumph . If one Hindoo , under whatever circumstances , has magnanimously honoured us with
his respect and friendship , why should not all his nation enter in time into our fellowship ? The brotherly intercourse has begun between the most enlightened ; let it go on among those who have a mutual interest , whether it be of a mere temporal or of a higher character , and it will in time include all who were not , whatever they may now think , born enemies , and who may therefore live to be friends * fe . A . ^ -j . < 4 . < r
1 * ^» **¦ ••» Since the foregoing remarks were written , we have received the other volume , the title of which is given at their commencement * It contains a reprint of thirteen publications , of which the first
six are translations from the Veds , tending to prove the unity of the Supreme Being ; the next three are controversial , occasioned by the publication of the former ; three more relate to the burning of widows ; and the last , which has the same humane object , is on the ancient rights of females according to the Hindoo law of inheritance . The fact that Suttees are now abolished will not
diminish the interest with which our readers will contemplate these philanthropic efforts . There can be no doubt of their having Contributed largely to that result . The Rajah was present at , and must have enjoyed with a pure triumph , the failure of the attempt to induce the Privy Council to rescind the order of the Governor-General . Some of the Theological Tracts are not wholly unknown in this country , though no reprint or complete
collection of them has before appeared . A singularly blessed lot k that of this extraordinary man in that , besides being an efficient agent in a great work of philanthropy , and contributing towards a political and commercial reform , he has laboured , and that not unsuccessfully , for the restoration of two religions from a
corrupt state to one of simplicity and purity , first showing the IMvine unity to have been the primeval doctrine of Hindooism , and since , of the Gospel . In both cases it is interesting to mark the spirituality and benevolence of his mind , its superiority to the common tone of controversy , and its direction to the glory of God in the good of man * We transcribe the Introduction to the
translation of the * Ishopanishad . * The physicial powers of man are limited , and when viewed comparatively , sink into insignificance ; while in the same ratio , his moral faculties rise in our estimation , as embracing a wide sphere of action , and possessing a capability of almost boundless improvement . If the short duration of humai ) life be contrasted with the . great age of the universe , and the limited extent of bodily strength * with the many objects to wlbicfo there is a necessity of applying it , we must necessarily be disposed to entertain but a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 615, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/39/
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