The Religion of the Hindus (Its Birth, Development and Expansion)

About the Book Our Religion is wonderful,-wonderful in many ways. It is no mere exaggeration to say that it is the parent of all the Religions, all the Literatures, all the Sciences and Philosophies of the world, either those of Egypt, Assyria, of Babylon-Persia, China, Greece, or Rome. It is the parent of Magism and Parsism, Confucianism and Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity-it is the Mother of all Civilisations. Wonderful, therefore, is the history of the Aryas, the noble Aryas who appeared on earth as the highest development of Man in the Evolution of Humanity.

Many great European scholars, with stupendous study and indefatigable researches, with herculean labour and magnificent acumen, have written many wonderful works on our History and Religion, but they have done it, as it is natural, according to their own light. But none has said what the Aryas themselves had to say about them; none has said what the Hindus might have to say about their forefathers' Religion and History according to their own point of view.

Preface Our Religion is wonderful,-wonderful in many ways. It is no mere exaggeration to say that it is the parent of all the Religions, all the Literatures, all the Sciences and Philosophies of the world, either those of Egypt, Assyria, of Babylon-Persia, China, Greece, or Rome. It is the parent of Magism and Parsism, Confucianism and Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity-it is the Mother of all Civilisations. Wonderful, therefore, is the history of the Aryas,-the noble Aryas who appeared on earth as the highest development of Man in the Evolution of Humanity.

But unfortunately no one,-none of my countrymen,-has made an attempt to place before the world the History of the noble Aryas,-of their great and wonderful Religion, of their sublime and cultured civilisation. None has answered where the Aryas were originally born, how they lived, thought, and worked, how they grew, developed and expanded. No doubt many great European scholars, with stupendous study and indefatigable researches, with herculean labour and magnificent acumen, have written many wonderful works on our History and Religion, but they have done it, as it is natural, according to their own light. And unfortunately some of my countrymen have tacitly followed their leading. But none has said what the Aryas themselves had to say about them; none has said what the Hindus might have to say about their forefathers' Religion and History according to their own point of view.

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