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The Jaina Philosophy as in America, we know the source of that weakness and that failure and should bequeath our commiseration and helpful brotherly pity. But this must be said in justice to my people that the statistics of crime in India, as ascertained by Government scrutiny, are but one-fourth in extent of those of England itself.
In concluding this part of my subject, I will refer you to the fact which with you is familiar, that what is said sometimes of the moral status of the Hindus, Which is the outward expression of the moral law which they adopt, is also said of you, who are spiritualists, by some of your ill-informed Christian brothers. The same argument that you present in meeting the obiection I also can and do adopt as my answer, since if I should peek to formulate answer it could not be more pertinent or more just. I find that answer in a book which I have considered for the first time on these grounds, and the author of which, well known to you, for he is on this platform, is not only my brother, bur, my friend, whom I have learned not only to admire but to love. The book is entitled “Angels Visits to my Farm in Florida." The author's name is "Gold but Light," but the pronunciation would be different. In that book I find this paragraph, which I will now read, and in the translation of it to my own people. I should substitute for Spiritualism. Hinduism. The author says to the objector to Spiritualism as I would say to the objector to Hinduism.
I suggested that perhaps public opinion in many things was based on misconception, and ignorance of the real truth, principles and facts underlying and constituting the philosophy of spiritualism. It is of the very first importance, in the first estimate of this philosophy and its adherents mid advocate, to know whether or not its principles and teachings are in themselves moral, judged by the highest standards the morality of this philosophy different from that which all pure, minds accept, whether it be called Christian or Jewish, Mohammedan or Hindu, Greek or Roman.
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