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( XIV ) really dwells .ix. Be Whatever might be the merit of this philosophy, those who have studied its principles as well as the march of Western civilization, will naturally doubt as to the possibility of the growth and formation of a religion without any God-head to preside : for, there is no denying the fact that throughout the history of the Western world, we find Philosophy and Religion to be at war with each other. There religion is based on the unstable basis of Belief. And surely there is nothing strange in the fact that the corner-stone of religion there, begins to shake and give way whenever a new philosophy rises against it armed with new ideas and ideals having incontrovertible reasons behind them to support. Not only this. If a system of philosophy fails to drive Belief out of consideration and thus crush the foundationstone into dust, it cannot be expected to thrive and drive its roots into the soil and create a school of its own. From all these it is clear that in the West, Philosophy is but a sworn enemy to Belief. But quite the reverse is the case in the East. Here each school of philosophy is chiefly meant to
