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ISBN13: 9780217187879
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. CHRIST AND OTHER MASTERS.1 In so comprehensive a work as Mr. Hardwick's Christ and other Masters, the number of facts stated, of topics discussed, of questions raised, is so considerable that in reviewing it we can select only one or two points for special consideration. Mr. Hardwick intends to give in his work, of which the third volume has just been published, a complete panorama of ancient religion. After having discussed in the first volume what he calls the religious tendencies of our age, he enters upon an examination of the difficult problem of the unity of the human race, and proceeds to draw, in a separate chapter, the characteristic features of religion under the Old Testament. Having thus cleared his way, and established some of the principles according to which the religions of the world should be judged, Mr. Hardwick devotes the whole of the second volume to the religions of India. We find there, first of all, a short but very clear account of the religion of the Veda, as far as it is known at present. We then come to a more matter-of-fact reprcsentation of Brahmanlsm, or the religion of the Hindus, as represented in the so-called Laws of Manu, and in the ancient portions of the two epic poems, the Ramayana and MahaLharata. The next chapter is devoted to the various systems of Indian philosophy, which all partak more or less of a religious character, and form a natural transition to the first subjective system of faith in India, the religion of Buddha. Mr. Hardwick afterwards discusses, in two separate chapters, the apparent and the real correspondences between Hinduism and revealed religion, and throws out some hints how we may best account for the partial glimpses of truth which exist in the Vedas, the canonical books of Buddhism, and the late...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217187879 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217187870 |
| Weight | 0.72 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 In |
| List Price | $19.94 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 218 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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