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never allowed to enter the main body of the temple, and as for their being preistesses, there is not one woman preistess from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin'.
“If the present abuses in India have been produced by the Hindu religion, the same religion had the strength of producing a society which made the Greek historian say : 'No Hindu was ever known to tell an untruth, no Hindu woman ever known to be unchaste'. And even in the present day where is there a more chaste woman or a milder man than in India ? The Oriental bubbles may be pricked, but the very hysterical shrieks sent forth from this platform from time to time show to the world that sometimes bubbles may be heavier than the blated balloons of vanity and self-conceit'.
am very, very sorry for those who criticize the great ones of India, and my only consolation is that all their information about them has come from third-hand, fourthhand sources, percolating through layers of superstition and bigotry. To those who think that in the refusal of the Hindu to criticize the character of Jesus is a tacit acceptation of the superiority of the fanatical nil admirari cult they represent, I am tempted to quote the old fable of Esope, and tell them : 'Not to you I bend the knee, but to the image you are carrying on your back’, and point out to them one page from the life of the great Emperor Akbar'.
A certain ship full of Mohammedan pilgrims was going to Mecca. On jts way a Portuguese vessel captured it. Amongst the booty were some copies of the Koran. The Portuguese hanged these copies of the Koran(Kuran) around the necks of dogs, and paraded these dogs through the streets of Ormuz. It happened that this very Portuguese ship was captured by the Emperor's men, and in it were
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