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পরিশিষ্ট্র খ বঙ্কিমচন্দ্রের ইংরাজী রচনাটা যেখানে সম্পূর্ণ হইয়াছে তাহার পর নিম্নোদ্ধৃত অংশটা ছিল । এটা আগাগোড় কাটিয়া দেওয়া হইয়াছিল । Jahan-pana | You have said that my religion must lower its head before your “morality”; my religion must leave the stage free to your “morality”, and make its exit. My dear Lord, never entertain that hope, “be it even so slight as the resemblance This is not a tran- to letters of the alphabet which the slation, but an trail of the boring insect leaves on *P* * * the wood.” Far from the morality— phrase to of which the essence is musketry, over-ruling religion, it cannot even stand before the Sanatana religion. Alexander understood this, and you too may, but that auspicious day has not yet come for you. Prabhu I will you not reform our social usages and morality ? Well, for once reflect upon this marriage system and its morality. Adult marriage, choosing the husband from out of many (Swayambara), courtship, testing the mind, testing the person, civil court union, criminal court union, marriage of J)ጫ