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statement could only make Jainism appear luidicur ous to yonng impressionable minds and has no other justification for its existence. The passage may well have been avoided as a matter of needless detail in an elementary historical reader. Indeed it is difficult to conceive why the authors should have attempted to explain and make intellegible to young boys what the publishers call a' complicated, technical and scientific view of the soul.”
7. The statement that “the two seets of the Jains are on very bad terms with each other” could only be intended to humiliate the Jains. What religion is there on the face of the world in which there are no schisms and the subsects of which have not disagreed among them selves. The civil litigation among the two Jain sects is nothing when compared to the inquisition tho Karbala, and the quite recent stoning to death of a Quadiani in Afganistan. No writer of an elementry history, however would ever think of emphasizing such matters.
8. The question of image worship by Jains is also of a highly philosophical character and may best have been avoided. It is only likely to intensify bigotry and prejudice. The publishers have given no reference at all for their so called patent historical fact, that image worship was introduced into India after the Christian Era which is gross mis-statement.
