A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey (1879) (14585963448)

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Title: A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: McCabe, James Dabney, 1842-1883
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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erend face as that of the General, and bestowupon it their curiosity and admiration. The Brahmins are the strongest social and religious force inHindostan. Benares is their city. The policy which founded theOrder of Jesuits has often been cited as a masterpiece of gov-ernment of combining the strongest intellectual force towardmissionary enterprise. But the Order of Jesuits is a society un-der rules and discipline only binding its members. The Brah-mins not only govern themselves as rigidly as the Jesuits andhold themselves ready to go as far in the service of their faith,but they have imposed their will upon every other class. Menof the world, men in other callings, use the name of Jesuit as aterm of reproach, and even Catholic kings have been known tobanish them and put them outside of civil law. There is not aprince in Hindostan who would dare to put a straw in the pathof a Brahmin. As an aowessive influence Brahminism showedits power in its war upon Buddhism. The worship of Buddha
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578 AROUND THE WORLD. was really a protest against the laxity of the Brahmin faith, justas the Reformation sprang from the war made by Martin Lutherupon the easy discipline of the Holy See. So successful wasBuddhism that at one time it swept over Hindostan, submergingevery form of the Hindoo faith, except the Brahmins. The otherclasses, glad to escape from the caste yoke imposed upon themby the priests, were, no doubt, only too glad to welcome a faith inwhich there were no castes, no barriers to genius and virtue. Inspite of all this the Brahmins, succeeding in doing what the Jesuitshave been striving in vain to do for centuries, they revived theirown faith, revived all their privileges and distinctions, drove Buddh-ism into China and Burmah, and are to-day as they were 3,000years ago, the most powerful class in India. Brahminism is oneof the oldest institutions in the world, one of the most extraor-dinary developments of human intellect and discipline, and thereis no reason to suppos