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The Calcutta Review October 1897

1897

Well firsly because it is there that the majority of the Mappillas arc descended from the lowest Hindu races—theoerfs ; and the germs of fanaticism are easiest bred in the hearts of the lowest and most uncivilised races as we sec in the case of the Soudanese Arabs. [...] The splendour of the sun of the moon and of the lightning. [...] So also amputations of portions of the body disfigurement of the features colouring of the skin self-imposed tortures asceticism celibacy weaknesses of the elder world if not gone are dying out and can no longer be used as indices of the relation of the soul of man to God. [...] compel the iquirers into the subject to admit that ‘visdom holiness sin a future Judgment and a just conception of the Creator were not the monopolies of the Hebrew in Asia during the centuries bfore Anno Domini ; and the fact that the large majority of the population of the world still profess non-Christian Faiths is a fact that cannot be gainsaid in spite of the strenuous attempts of [...] But to this form of religious conception and that of Islam the disgraceful rite still clings of the mutilation of the male body which differetiates it from all religious conceptions of the ancient world and all religious conceptions of the modern world of a really spiritual character which in the Nineteenth Century an epoch of culture and personal respect must deter converts.
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Pages
219
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Art. I.—The Empire’s East-End
203-211 unknown view
Art. II.—Mappilla Faith and Fanaticism
212-220 unknown view
Art. III.—Modern Religious Conceptions
221-238 Robert Cust view
Art. IV.—Horace
239-252 Michael Macmillan view
Art. V.—Indian Bamboos
253-287 C.W. Hope view
Art. VI.—Byron and Waterloo
288-299 H.G. Keene view
Art. VII.—The Bengalee Language and Literature
300-313 unknown view
Art. VIII.—The Anthropological Survey of Southern India
314-341 Sarat Mitra view
Art. IX.—Transliteral Versus Phonetic Romanisation
342-351 Syamacharan Ganguli view
Art. X.—The Progressive Cooling of the Northern Hemisphere and of Northern India
352-362 David Gostling view
Art. XI.—The Public Health of India
363-374 unknown view
Art. XII.—The Founding of Pondicherry and the Birth of Madame Dupleix
375-387 unknown view
The Quarter
388-400 unknown view
Summary of Annual Reports
401-405 unknown view
Critical Notices
xvii-xxvii unknown view
Acknowledgments
xxviii-xxix unknown view

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