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error and that we shall always be doomed to depend upon hearsay and opinions. To them extraordinary powers of soul are mere dreams. The author of the modern science and modern thought says:-Almost the entire world of the supernatural fades away of itself with an extension of our knowledge of the laws of nature, as sure as the mists melt from the valley before the rays of the morning sun. We have seen how throughout the wide domains of space, time and matter, law uniform, universal and inexorable reigns supreme; and there is absolutely no room for the interference of any outside personal agency (the Hindoos never said that there was any outside personal agency). The last remnant of supernaturalism therefore apart from Christian miracles has shrunk into that doubtful and shady borderland of ghosts, spiritualism and mesmerism, where vision and fact and partly real, partly imaginary effects of abnormal nervous conditions are mixed up in a nebulous haze with a large dose of imposture and credulity.
MYSTICISM IN INDIA
Let us hear what his neighbour says. These are the words of Dr. Heinrich Hensoldt of Germany :Apart from the material progress, or mere outward development which the Hindoos had already attained in times which we are apt to call pre-historic as evinced by the splendour of their buildings and the luxuries and refinements of their civilization in general, it would seem as if this greatest and most subtle of Aryan races had developed an inner life even more strange and wonderful. Let those who are imbued
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