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Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Name: Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.
Author: Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

India is almost a continent like Europe. It is shaped like a great
triangle. Its population amounts to 240,000,000. There are different
races in India. First came to the fertile valleys of the Indus and
Ganges the sturdy immigrants from Central Asia, from Tartary and
Thibet. These were Scythians, some of them Mongolians. Then came
_the_ Hindu people, the great family of the Aryans, who separated
themselves from their Persian brethren sometime near 2,000 B.C., and
gradually overspread all India. About 500 B.C., Darius Hystaspes
conquered the Indian Empire. Alexander the Great invaded it as far as
the Indus in 327 B.C. The Mohammedans drove the Parsees from their
Persian home about 1,100 years ago, and a small body of them settled
in India. Then came the Mohammedans (Arabs, Turks, Afghans and Moguls)
and conquered India for a time. There are now 41,000,000 of Mohammedans
in that land. Still later came Europeans, led thither by the prospects
of great commercial gains, the Portuguese, the Danes, the Dutch, the
French and, finally, came the English.

Over one hundred dialects are spoken in India, but there is only one
sacred language and one sacred literature. This is the Sanscrit. All
the Hindu sacred books, all the sacred knowledge of Hindu theology,
philosophy or law, all the Hindu creeds, opinions, customs, etc., are
recorded in this language. This language of their literature does not
change with the course of time, it remains the same now as ever.


                         SKETCH OF BRAHMINISM.

Brahminism grew out of what is called the Vedic religion. Before
Abraham’s day the people living in Central Asia, being a simple race,
addressed their prayers to the powers of nature, as, for example,
to the storms, the clouds and the sun, seeing the Deity in each of
these. Hymns were written to these gods and this forms the earliest
of all sacred books, only excepting those from which Moses wrote his
account of the early history of the world in Genesis. This people
moved south into India. The priesthood arose and the other Vedic books
of ceremonies, sacrifices and liturgical forms were prepared. Great
commentaries were written on these books, and all were declared to be
inspired.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

India is almost a continent like Europe. It is shaped like a great
triangle. Its population amounts to 240,000,000. There are different
races in India. First came to the fertile valleys of the Indus and
Ganges the sturdy immigrants from Central Asia, from Tartary and
Thibet. These were Scythians, some of them Mongolians. Then came
_the_ Hindu people, the great family of the Aryans, who separated
themselves from their Persian brethren sometime near 2,000 B.C., and
gradually overspread all India. About 500 B.C., Darius Hystaspes
conquered the Indian Empire. Alexander the Great invaded it as far as
the Indus in 327 B.C. The Mohammedans drove the Parsees from their
Persian home about 1,100 years ago, and a small body of them settled
in India. Then came the Mohammedans (Arabs, Turks, Afghans and Moguls)
and conquered India for a time. There are now 41,000,000 of Mohammedans
in that land. Still later came Europeans, led thither by the prospects
of great commercial gains, the Portuguese, the Danes, the Dutch, the
French and, finally, came the English.

Over one hundred dialects are spoken in India, but there is only one
sacred language and one sacred literature. This is the Sanscrit. All
the Hindu sacred books, all the sacred knowledge of Hindu theology,
philosophy or law, all the Hindu creeds, opinions, customs, etc., are
recorded in this language. This language of their literature does not
change with the course of time, it remains the same now as ever.


                         SKETCH OF BRAHMINISM.

Brahminism grew out of what is called the Vedic religion. Before
Abraham’s day the people living in Central Asia, being a simple race,
addressed their prayers to the powers of nature, as, for example,
to the storms, the clouds and the sun, seeing the Deity in each of
these. Hymns were written to these gods and this forms the earliest
of all sacred books, only excepting those from which Moses wrote his
account of the early history of the world in Genesis. This people
moved south into India. The priesthood arose and the other Vedic books
of ceremonies, sacrifices and liturgical forms were prepared. Great
commentaries were written on these books, and all were declared to be
inspired.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

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