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AN ESSAY ON HINDUISM

will result in an evil both for the individual and for the society.

The tendency of the world is to make the belief or cult of less consideration as the former and the determinant of the social group. The entire world will become one community. The moral ideas of men will become uniform. There would be a large stock of customs common to the whole world. The great sages of India, Arabia or Judea will become objects of more or less universal reverence among the intelligent classes of mankind. The ideas regarding the hereafter and unknown will be regarded simply as "beliefs" and not as dogma, which everybody must believe. There will be perfect toleration in these matters as it always existed and exists in India. The religious customs in different countries will continue to be practised, but they will be regarded as antiquity and tradition and will be followed only for the enjoyment they give. In this manner the chief aim of the process which formed Hinduism will be finally accomplished.

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