SQ o রাজনারায়ণ বসুর আত্ম-চরিত। are not so. The Being who has given us will must have will-the Being who has given us ideas of moral purity must himself be pure-the Being who has given us love must himself have love-are all inferences and not intuitions. You say in one place of your preface: "Because we rejoice in these relics of ancient piety and delight to use them as often as they suggest themselves, as the genuine expressions of our feelings and love to link ourselves by their employment to the great chain of pious Souls, stretching through the past, it does not therefore follow that we can confine ourselves within their limits or find in them, as a whole, the free channel wherein our faith can flow unbrokenly." This is a very sound principle. According to this principle, old and new elements should both be united in Theistic services and prayer-books. The retention of the old element aids the diffusion of Theism among the mass of mankind who has a tender fondness for the past. The acknowledgment of the merits of Christ in some of the prayers in your book, besides sounding very graceful as expressions of gratitude in the mouths of European Theists who have conscientiously greater admiration for Christ than we, Hindu. Theists, have, links the past with the present, and aids the diffusion mentioned above. I am very glad to mark the sacred regard and the affectionate tenderness with which you have spoken of the past everywhere in your preface. How happy is your expression “as if the Divinity
