[Footnote 12: Lassen, _Indische Alterthumskunde_, vol. iv. p. 606; Wilson, _Asiatic Researches_, xvi. p. 21.] [Footnote 13: See _Brahmic Questions of the Day_, 1869, p. 16.] [Footnote 14: _History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature_, by M. M. (2d ed.) p. 569.] [Footnote 15: _The Adi Brahma-Samaj, Its views and Principles_, Calcutta, 1870, p. 10.] [Footnote 16: _A Brief History of the Calcutta Brahma-Samâj_, 1868, p. 15.] [Footnote 17: See Note B, p. 269.] [Footnote 18: See Note C, p. 272.] [Footnote 19: The _Indian Mirror_ (Sept. 10, 1869) constantly treats of missionary efforts of various kinds in a spirit which is not only friendly, but even desirous of reciprocal sympathy; and hopeful that whatever differences may exist between them (the missionaries) and the Brahmos, the two parties will heartily combine as brethren to exterminate idolatry, and promote true morality in India. Many of our ministers and leading men, says the _Indian Mirror_, are recruited from missionary schools, which, by affording religious education, prove more favorable to the growth and spread of Brahmoism than government schools with Comte and Secularism (_Indian Theism_, by S. D. Collet, 1870, p. 22).] [Footnote 20: _Life of John Coleridge Patteson_, by C. M. Yonge, ii. p. 167.] [Footnote 21: “The large body of European and American missionaries settled in India bring their various moral influences to bear upon the country with the greater force, because they act together with a compactness which is but little understood. Though belonging to various denominations of Christians, yet from the nature of their work, their isolated position, and their long experience, they have been led to think rather of the numerous questions on which they agree, than of those on which they differ, and they coöperate heartily together. Localities are divided among them by friendly arrangements, and, with a few exceptions, it is a fixed rule among them that they will not interfere with each other’s converts and each other’s spheres of duty. School books, translations of the Scriptures and religious works, prepared by various missions, are used in common; and help and improvements secured by one mission are freely placed at the command of all. The large body of missionaries resident in each of the presidency towns form missionary conferences, hold periodic meetings, and act together on public matters. They have frequently addressed the Indian government on important social questions involving the welfare of the native community, and have suggested valuable improvements in existing laws. During the past twenty years, on five occasions, general conferences have been held for mutual consultation respecting their missionary work; and in January