The National Magazine (New Series) July 1887 a Monthly Review

The flrst.treats of the doctrine of the transmigration of soup; the second of the prohibitions of Pythagoras ; the third of the Pythagorean theorem and irrational quantities ; the fourth of the doctrine of the five elements ; the fifth of the °system of Pythagoras and die SAnkhya philosophy the sixth is devoted to points of smaller importance and the seventh deals with the fanciful mystical and [...] He also admits as possible the view that the belief in the transtnigration of souls the Oriental origin of which is rendered probable by its affinity with Egyptian and Indiansbeliefs may have been brought into Greece by the first immigrants though it must long have remained restricted to a narrow coterie.* With regard to the hypothesis of the Greek origin of the doctrine of the transmigration of [...] To him is ascribed the discovery of the truth that tilt Square of the hypothenuse is equalto the squares of the sides enclosing the right angle. [...] In common with the six schools of Hindu philosophy Buddha believed in the theory of the transmigration of the human soul and in the law of Karma. [...] While the Brahmans exercised supreme authority as expounders of law and religion and exclued the Sudras and to a certain extent the two other sections of the twice-born class namely the kshetriyas and the Vaisyas from all power and privileges in matters spiritual Stikya Sinha the greatest of reformers that India and perhaps the world ever produced levelled a tremendous blow against the