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where now there are only fragments of Australia, New Zealand and Madagascar, fragments of a continent long disappeared, long hidden. Both are in these later years recognised by science; Lemuria is declared by Haeckel, the German scientist, to be the cradle of the human race, as was taught by Madame Blavatsky before him. Atlantis is being recognised now by the evidence of the common fama and flora, by the evidence of the races found alike in America and in Egypt, likenesses of religion, likenesses of hieroglyphics, so that the man who can translate the hieroglyphics of Egypt can translate those of the Mayas in Mexico. See how during the last one hundred and twenty years, from the end of the 18th century, when Dulaure and Dupuis wrote on the origin of faiths, see how during the whole of the 19th century, by student after student in the West, there has gradually grown up what is called the science of Comparative Mythology. Looking into the far, far past to which I have alluded, looking into the present, to the latest declarations of European research, one great truth comes ont. As the antiquarian and archæologist dug down below the crust of the surface of the earth, and unburied city after city, these long buried fragments have given up their evidence as to the religions of the past, their doctrines, their founders, and their symbolism, and have proved their unity. Europeans with the longing for knowledge that distinguishes them, and the thirst for facts which you find as their characteristic, have been delving over the ancient world.
THE RELIGIOUS PRO BLEM IN INDIA
