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His purpose, we conclude, though we can find it nowhere clearly stated, is not merely to discredit Christianity, a task which, to judge from the quotations in this volume, can be left to the Christians themselves, but also to point out to Hindus the fact which has been noted by many of tht greatest thinkers both of the East and the West : that the great Eastern religious communities have really nothing to learn from Europeans in the religious sphere possessing superior ideals of their own if they would but emerge from contemplation and the fog of superstition, which always · accompanies inertia in the.
Probably Mr. Haldar thinks of his community, what we think of our own, that it possesses truths and possibilities of value to making, which would be lost for ever if it were wiped out and that it is capable of evolving a modern civilisation at least equal to that of the West-in short, that the cultured East has much to learn from the Europeans in natural science, which we have neglected to our bitter cost, and organisation, which has been ruined in the course of our political misfortunes ; but that in the religious sphere Asia is still supreme.
e. , the Muslims) and those who follow the Jew's religious rule and Christians and Sabaeans -Whoever· believeth in Allah and the Last Day and doeth right-Surely their reward is with their Lord, and there shall no fear come upon them, neither shall they suffer grief.