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( 10 ) New Testament. It has been said that the dying speech of Cylus is far better fitted-to raise the tone of moral feeling in the breast of a young man and to confirm his faith in the reality of moral distinctions than,the treatise on Moral Philosophy by Paley, though he was an archdeacon. That many of the most brilliant passages of the English Sermons were borrowed from Plato and Cicero and Seneca, is a well known fact. And who would not shrink from making Christianity responsible for the ignorance and corruption of its professors ?” Ibial, “Remarkable is the precision with which the immortality of the soul and its existence when separate from the body, is expressed in the sacred writings of the Hindoos, and not merely as a philosophical proposition, but as a doctrine of religion. In this respect the Hindows were far in advance of the philosophers of Greece and Rome who considered the immortality of the soul as problemetical.” The Theogony of the Hindoos by Count. M. Bjornstjerna, page 27. “What has been briefly stated here may be sufficient to show that no nation on earth ein vie with the Hindows in respect to the "antiquity of their religion and the antiquity of their civilization.” Ibid, page 50. {{ Those truly sublime ideas cannot fail to convince us that the Wolos recognize Out Only God who is Almighty, Infinite, Eternal, Self-Existent, the Light stud the Lord of the universe.” Ibid, page 53. “The more enlightened, especially the Brahmins, do not share this idolatry, but still support superstition on moral grounds. Human reason, they say, immersed in lugditation on the Divine Being, grows weary of a way on which it can not reach goal. To give but a metaphysical deity to men immersed in sensual objects is to make them atheists—is to make them miserable.” Ibid, page 61. “Although stedfast in his faith, the Hindoo is not fanatical; he never seeks to make prosely tes. If the Creator of the world, he