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The Jaina Philosophy Tammany reach only to a very few, but this tremendous wheel of cheating black-mailing and damning reaches the rich and the poor alike; it crushes under its weight old and young alike; it has no mercy for the poor or the miserable, the schoolboy or the servantgirl, the millionaire or the workman. Cheat one and all alike; this is its motto.
These saints talk of the caste in India; here is a caste of missionaries springing right amongst you; I have found there are hereditary missionaries for three or four generations and missionary bosses who control the appointment, the pay and the promotion for which the hungry hundreds of missionaries wait at their door. These holy men talk of the Hindu superstitions. They had better examined their own religion. A religion whose beginning is in blood, whose salvation is in blood, whose purity is in innocent blood, whose hope of saint ship is in a dream of a sea of blood, whose revivals are brought about by a preaching and a vision of the sea of blood afresh, would do better by talking less of the superstitions of other nations.
My Christian brothers and sisters of America, your missionaries often glory in having taken upon themselves the task of educating the poor outcasts of India. In a lecture which I have had the honor to deliver before thousands of people of this country I said :-"What I have learned of your great system of the education of the masses which I admit cannot be very great or particular for the reason that my observations have been necessarily limited, is to me an encouragement beyond words to express if my impressions are just and true.”
Since delivering that lecture I have observed much controversy among the people of this country in relation to the character – I may say – the religious character of the common school. A large class of citizens, believers in certain form of religion oppose and even go so far as to denounce the school system,
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