India Old And New, With a Memorial Address
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"What has been of still later planting may be surmised only, for monotheistic growth cannot be referred with certainty to Christianity after the Mohammedans entered India, But, on the other hand, who can tell how great has beeil the influence exerted by the teaching of the first centuries ? We do not know. We may exaggerate its importance and we may unduly depreciate it. For my own part, though I do not know that it was an influence which materially affected the thought of the people, I must co...nfess that the ingrowth of Christian ideas may have been deeper than we can state with certainty, and that, for example, the little band of early Christians in South India may have been instrumental in fash- ioning the lofty ideals of some of the noble religions which we know existed in after time and the influence of which in their turn may still be potent among the sects of to-day.
That there was a late counter-growth from seeds of the Orient, which, starting in India, blossomed in the Occident in tales of saints and in moral legends, found first in Persia, then in the Talmud, and finally, perhaps, in the vision of Dante, may be admitted.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
"What has been of still later planting may be surmised only, for monotheistic growth cannot be referred with certainty to Christianity after the Mohammedans entered India, But, on the other hand, who can tell how great has beeil the influence exerted by the teaching of the first centuries ? We do not know. We may exaggerate its importance and we may unduly depreciate it. For my own part, though I do not know that it was an influence which materially affected the thought of the people, I must co...nfess that the ingrowth of Christian ideas may have been deeper than we can state with certainty, and that, for example, the little band of early Christians in South India may have been instrumental in fash- ioning the lofty ideals of some of the noble religions which we know existed in after time and the influence of which in their turn may still be potent among the sects of to-day.
That there was a late counter-growth from seeds of the Orient, which, starting in India, blossomed in the Occident in tales of saints and in moral legends, found first in Persia, then in the Talmud, and finally, perhaps, in the vision of Dante, may be admitted.
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