The Friend of India and Statesman Friday April 25th 1879

A contemporary tells us that the proceedings of the Court of Inquiry into the disaster at the Cabul river ford have been sent to the Commander-in-Chief but have been referred back by him for further information." Several correspondents have expressed dissatisfaction with the proceedings of the Court of Inquiry and it appears from the foregoing quotation that the Chief shares the openly expresse [...] First of 'all the religion or philosophy of the Sanskrit period with which be deals was the exclusive property of the twice-born The Sudras that is the mass of the population were left to their own superstitions. [...] And all the exalted writing about the wonders of Indian religion about the excellence of the Brahmanical division of life into four stages about half-naked Srotiyas who know the Vedas by heart and the rest of it seems to no very like a piece of cant to please the modern assailants of Christianity. [...] But the vehemence of his assertion of this has tended to obscure what is equally a fact that this recognition of the infinite usually assumes the form of a belief in spirits and that fetishism ben the worship of localized spirits the superstitious immoral wors17ip of fetishes is practically the religion the embodiment of the idea of the infinite of those tribes to whose theoretic recognitio [...] Then the rich foliage of the hawthorn became limited on an occasional spray with the white petals of the may ; then the garden became the home of a delicious perfume fifty times more fragrant than the choicest wares of Rimell ; and then the magpies leaving their callow brood away on the tops of trees came and gurgled their morning song to us out of the thicket of ivy and roses.