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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

This story will serve to illustrate the delusion under which the Hindus
are resting, and the readiness with which they yield their faith to
any pretender that comes along. The climate of India awakens a dull,
lethargic condition. The activity of Western nations is unknown. The
people are accustomed to move slowly and to avail themselves, as far
as possible, of all the helps obtainable to lessen the toils of daily
life. This also leads them to fall in readily with the declarations of
any foolish fanatic who may arise, rather than to go to the trouble of
sifting them and rejecting them as they deserve. The whole system of
Hinduism lends its aid to this. It is, itself, a gigantic system of
fraud. The Hindu priests laugh in their sleeves at the folly of the
multitudes in listening so readily to their instructions. But few of
them have any faith in the millions of gods, whose representatives they
are. This is their profession, by their priesthood they obtain their
living, and, consequently, they do all they can to make their religion
predominant in all the affairs of their neighborhoods. Hence it comes
about, that instead of at once exposing the pretensions of Fakirs,
holy men and devotees, they lend their aid to gain acceptance for them
with the multitude. So India groans beneath this oppressive load of
priestcraft; each day the priests add link after link to the chains
that bind her; some day, though, she will arise in her might and cast
off her burdens, walking in freedom. Christian mission work will speed
the coming of that day.




                             CHAPTER XIII.

         HINDU SACRED BOOKS, FAIRY STORIES AND FIRESIDE TALES.

   Not only in the writings of the later Stoicism, when already
   through the despairing twilight a luminous haze had been
   diffused, not only in the open plagiarisms of the Koran, spoiled
   so often in the plagiarizing, but, even centuries before Christ,
   in the Dialogues of Socrates, in the Republic of Plato, in the
   Analects of Confucius, in the Laws of Manou, in the Sutras of
   the Buddhists, in the Vedas of the Brahmins, in the Zend Avesta
   of the Parsees, in the Pirke Avoth of the Rabbis, there are
   unquestionably precepts which might be combined into a very pure
   and noble code.--FREDERICK W. FARRAR.

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Opening the text

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

This story will serve to illustrate the delusion under which the Hindus
are resting, and the readiness with which they yield their faith to
any pretender that comes along. The climate of India awakens a dull,
lethargic condition. The activity of Western nations is unknown. The
people are accustomed to move slowly and to avail themselves, as far
as possible, of all the helps obtainable to lessen the toils of daily
life. This also leads them to fall in readily with the declarations of
any foolish fanatic who may arise, rather than to go to the trouble of
sifting them and rejecting them as they deserve. The whole system of
Hinduism lends its aid to this. It is, itself, a gigantic system of
fraud. The Hindu priests laugh in their sleeves at the folly of the
multitudes in listening so readily to their instructions. But few of
them have any faith in the millions of gods, whose representatives they
are. This is their profession, by their priesthood they obtain their
living, and, consequently, they do all they can to make their religion
predominant in all the affairs of their neighborhoods. Hence it comes
about, that instead of at once exposing the pretensions of Fakirs,
holy men and devotees, they lend their aid to gain acceptance for them
with the multitude. So India groans beneath this oppressive load of
priestcraft; each day the priests add link after link to the chains
that bind her; some day, though, she will arise in her might and cast
off her burdens, walking in freedom. Christian mission work will speed
the coming of that day.




                             CHAPTER XIII.

         HINDU SACRED BOOKS, FAIRY STORIES AND FIRESIDE TALES.

   Not only in the writings of the later Stoicism, when already
   through the despairing twilight a luminous haze had been
   diffused, not only in the open plagiarisms of the Koran, spoiled
   so often in the plagiarizing, but, even centuries before Christ,
   in the Dialogues of Socrates, in the Republic of Plato, in the
   Analects of Confucius, in the Laws of Manou, in the Sutras of
   the Buddhists, in the Vedas of the Brahmins, in the Zend Avesta
   of the Parsees, in the Pirke Avoth of the Rabbis, there are
   unquestionably precepts which might be combined into a very pure
   and noble code.--FREDERICK W. FARRAR.

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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