[Footnote 40: See "Indian Antiquary," 1876, p. 333.] [Footnote 41: Megasthenis Fragmenta (ed. Didot) in "Fragm. Histor. Graec." vol. ii., p. 426 b: 'Αλήθειἁν τε ὑμοἱως καὶ ἁρετὴν ὰποδεχονται. [Footnote 42: Indica, cap. xii. 6.] [Footnote 43: See McCrindle in. "Indian Antiquary," 1876, p. 92.] [Footnote 44: See Stanislas Julien, _Journal Asiatique_, 1847, Août, pp. 98, 105.] [Footnote 45: Vol. ii., p. 83.] [Footnote 46: Elliot, "History of India," vol. i., p. 88.] [Footnote 47: See Mehren: "Manuel de la Cosmographie du moyen âge, traduction de l'ouvrage de Shems-ed-din Abou Abdallah de Damas." Paris: Leroux, 1874, p. 371.] [Footnote 48: "Marco Polo," ed. H. Yule, vol. ii., p. 350.] [Footnote 49: "Marco Polo," vol. ii., p. 354.] [Footnote 50: "Notices des Manuscrits," tom. xiv., p. 436. He seems to have been one of the first to state that the Persian text of the Kalilah and Dimna was derived from the wise people of India.] [Footnote 51: Samuel Johnson, "India," p. 294.] [Footnote 52: Sleeman, "Rambles," vol. i., p. 63.] [Footnote 53: Elphinstone's "History of India," ed. Cowell, p. 213.] [Footnote 54: This statement may well be doubted. The missionary staff in India is very large and has been for years past. There is no reason to doubt that many of its members are well informed respecting Hindoo character in all grades of society.--AM. PUBS.] [Footnote 55: Samuel Johnson, "India," p. 293.] [Footnote 56: See "History of India," pp. 375-381.] [Footnote 57: L. c., p. 215.] [Footnote 58: "History of India," p. 218.] [Footnote 59: Mill's "History of India," ed. Wilson, vol. i., p. 370.] [Footnote 60: L. c., p. 371.] [Footnote 61: Sir Thomas Munro estimated the children educated at public schools in the Madras presidency as less than one in three. But low as it was, it was, as he justly remarked, a higher rate than existed till very lately in most countries of Europe.--Elphinstone, "Hist. of India," p. 205. In Bengal there existed no less than 80,000 native schools, though, doubtless, for the most part, of a poor quality. According to a Government Report of 1835, there was a village-school for every 400 persons.--"Missionary Intelligencer," IX. 183-193. Ludlow ("British India," I. 62) writes: "In every Hindu village which has retained its old form I am assured that the children generally are able to read, write, and cipher; but where we have swept away the village-system, as in Bengal, there the village-school has also disappeared."] [Footnote 62: Rig-Veda I. 87, 4; 145, 5; 174, 1; V. 23, 2.] [Footnote 63: Rig-Veda III. 32, 9; VI. 5, 1.] [Footnote 64: Rig-Veda VI. 22, 2.] [Footnote 65: Rig-Veda III. 14, 6.] [Footnote 66: This is the favorite expression of Plato for the Divine, which Cary, Davis, and others render "Real Being."--A. W.] [Footnote 67: Sometimes they trace even this S a t y a or _R i_ t a, the Real or Right, to a still higher cause, and say (Rig-Veda X. 190, 1):