[Footnote 1: The Senate and People of Rome--Senatus Populus-que Romanus.] [Footnote 2: In the Hindu College at Benares, affiliated to Allahabad University, certain orthodox Hindus also objected to sacred texts being read in the presence of European professors and teachers. Think of it, in that college preparing students for ordinary modern degrees!--Bose, _Hindu Civilisation, I_. xxxiii.] [Footnote 3: One of the Zoroastrian Persians who fled to Western India at the beginning of the eighth century A.D. At the census of 1901 they numbered 94,190. They are most numerous in the city of Bombay.] [Footnote 4: _Asiatic Studies_, I.] [Footnote 5: _Ibid_., I. iii.] [Footnote 6: _Quinquen, Report on Education in India_, 1897-1902.] [Footnote 7: For an apparently contrary view, see _Census of India, 1901, Report,_ p. 430: "Railways, which are sometimes represented as a solvent of caste prejudices, have in fact enormously extended the area within which those prejudices reign supreme." The sentence refers to the influence of the fashion of the higher castes in regard to child marriage and prohibition of the marriage of widows.] [Footnote 8: Sir W.W. Hunter, _England's Work in India_.] [Footnote 9: The manifold origins of castes are fully discussed in the newest lights in the _Census of India Report_, 1901.] [Footnote 10: Miss Noble [Sister Nivedita], finds herein an apology for caste. "The power of the individual to advance is by this means kept strictly in ratio to the thinking of the society in which he lives." _(The Web of Indian Life_, p. 145.)] [Footnote 11: Sir A. Lyall, _Asiatic Studies_, I. v.: "A man is not a Hindu because he inhabits India or belongs to any particular race or state, but because he is a Brahmanist." Similarly _Census of India_, 1901, _Report_, p. 360: "The most obvious characteristics of the ordinary Hindu are his acceptance of the Brahmanical supremacy and of the caste system."] [Footnote 12: _Harvest Field_, March 1904; _Madras Decen. Missionary Conference Report,_ 1902.] [Footnote 13: Introduction to _Translation of the Ishopanishad_.] [Footnote 14: _Benares Hindu Coll. Maga_. Sept. 1904.] [Footnote 15: _Karkarin: Forty years of Progress and Reform_, p. 117.] [Footnote 16: _Census of India_, 1901, _Report_, pp. 496, 517, 544.] [Footnote 17: Miss Noble [Sister Nivedita], _Web of Indian Life_, p. 133.] [Footnote 18: _Report, Census of India_, 1901, p. 163.] [Footnote 19: _Census of India_, 1901, _Report_, p. 163.] [Footnote 20: _Census of India_, 1901, _Report_, p. 522.] [Footnote 21: _Lux Christi_, by C.A. Mason, p. 255. 1902.] [Footnote 22: In Italy, in 1891, the sexes were almost equal, being males 1000 to females 995.] [Footnote 23: _Census of India_, 1901, _Report_, p. 115.] [Footnote 24: A case of Suttee is reported in the _Bengal Police Report_ for 1903.] [Footnote 25: _Report, Census of India_, 1901, pp. 442, 443.] [Footnote 26: Justice Amir Ali, _Life and Teaching of Mohammed_.]