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    attention to their contexts , may be made the foundation of doctrines quite at variance with the tenour of the rest of the scriptures , I should have had no hesitation in submitting indiscriminately the whole of the doctrines of the New Testament to my countrymen ; as I should have felt no apprehension that even the most ignorant of them , if left to ~ -jh §^ guM § Jl <^ of their own unprejudiced views of the matter , could misconceive the ~~ He a r ^^ contain of the unity of God , and subordinate nature of his messenger Jesus Christ / ' '

    The second appeal was answered by another work from Dr . Marshman ; to which Kamrnohun Roy published a reply in 1823 , under the title of the f Final Appeal His former works had been printed at the Baptist Missionary Press ; but the acting proprietor declined , though with proper courtesy , to print the Final Appeal . ' Ramriiohun Roy , therefore , purchased type , and began an independent printing press for this and similar publications . The imprint is , ' Calcutta , printed at the Unitarian Press , Dhurratollah . ' He depended chiefly oh native aid ; aiid in consequence the original work has many errata .

    The writer already quoted relates an aneedote illustrating his zeal for religious truth ^ which is worthy of being repeated : ' The writer remembers- finding him athis garden--house , near Calcutta , one evening about seven o'clock , closing a dispute with one of the-followers of Budh , ^ who denied the existence of a Deity . The Rajah had spent the whole day in the controversy without stopping

    for food , rest , or refreshment , and rejoicing more in confuting one atheist than in triumphing over a hundred idolaters : the credulity of the one he despised , the scepticism of the other he thought pernicious ; for he was deeply impressed with the importance of religion to the virtue and happiness of mankind /*

    He had long formed the purpose of visiting Europe , and England particularly , which appears to have been delayed by the legal proceedings against him on the subject of caste , which were , however , futile , but which , if they had been saccessful , would have deprived him of his patrimonial inheritance . He showed that caste was a political and not a relig ious distinction , and therefore not at all affected by his reception of Christianity as true and authoritative . After bis death the thread oi his caste

    was found passing round him over his left and under his rig ht shoulder . * In November , 1830 , I embarked for England , as the discussion of the East India Company ' s charter was expected to come on , by which the treatment of the natives of India and its future ' government would be determined for many years to come , and an appeal to the * AthensQum . We have given the extract for the sake of showing Rnmmohnn Roy ' s zeal ; but we doubt if Mr . Arnot has correctl y described his opinions with vegsu'd to atheists ami polytheists . lie thought idolatry not only despicable but pernicious , though perhaps not so pernicious as atheism .

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    326 RAJAH RAMMOHUN ROT .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1833, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2625/page/6/