[Footnote 62:  See Aryan Witness, closing chapter; also Christ and Other Masters, p. 198, notes 1, 2, and 3.]

[Footnote 63:  See Brahmanism and Hinduism, Monier Williams.]

[Footnote 64:  Hardwick traces similarities between Hindu traditions and Christianity in such points as these:  1, The primitive state of man; 2, his fall by transgression; 3, his punishment in the Deluge; 4, the rite of sacrifice; 5, the primitive hope of restoration.—­Christ and Other Masters, p. 209.]

[Footnote 65:  The Hindus hold that “truth was originally deposited with men, but gradually slumbered and was forgotten; the knowledge of it returns like a recollection.”—­Humboldt’s Kosmos, ii., p. 112.]

[Footnote 66:  Professor Wilson’s Lectures, p. 52.]

[Footnote 67:  Vishnu Puranas, p. 45, note 4.]

[Footnote 68:  Buddhism is still more disheartening, since it denies the separate conscious existence of the ego.  There cannot be divine fellowship, therefore, but only the current of thoughts and emotions like the continuous flame of a burning candle.  Not our souls will survive, but our Karma.]

[Footnote 69:  Christ and Other Masters, p. 182.]

[Footnote 70:  Yet in spite of Manu and the inveteracy of old custom, there gleams here and there in Hindu literature and history a bright ideal of woman’s character and rank; while the Ramayana has its model Sita, the Mahabharata, i., 3028, has this peerless sketch: 

   “A wife is half the man, his truest friend;
    A loving wife is a perpetual spring
    Of virtue, pleasure, wealth; a faithful wife
    Is his best aid in seeking heavenly bliss;
    A sweetly-speaking wife is a companion
    In solitude; a father in advice;
    A mother in all seasons of distress;
    A rest in passing through life’s wilderness.”

This, however, is a pathetic outburst:  the tyranny of the ages remains.]

[Footnote 71:  Even in the later development of the doctrine of faith (Bakti) Hinduism fails to connect with it any moral purification or elevation.  See quotations from Elphinstone and Wilson in Christ and Other Masters, p. 234.]

[Footnote 72:  See a recent Catechism published by the Arya Somaj.]

[Footnote 73:  The following hymn, quoted from the Arya Catechism, reveals the proud spirit of revived Aryanism: 

   “We are the sons of brave Aryas of yore,
    Those sages in learning, those heroes in war. 
    They were the lights of great nations before,
    And shone in that darkness like morning’s bright star,
    A beacon of warning, a herald from far. 
    Have we forgotten our Rama and Arjun,
    Yudistar or Bishma or Drona the Wise? 
    Are not we sons of the mighty Duryodani? 
    Where did Shankar and great Dayananda arise? 
    ‘In India, in India!’