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[PART IV. 



own ancient superstition. Conscious of their inability to 

 decide on what has baffled the wisest of their European 

 teachers to reconcile, they hesitate to exchange for an 

 apparent uncertainty that which has been unhesitatingly 

 believed by generations of their ancestors, and which 

 comes recommended to them by all the authority of an- 

 tiquity ; and even when truth has been so far successful 

 as to shake their confidence in their national faith, the 

 choice of sects which has been offered to them leads to 

 utter bewilderment as to the peculiar form of Christianity 

 with which they may most confidingly replace it. 1 



1 A narrative of the efforts made 

 by the Portuguese to introduce 

 Christianity, and hy the Dutch to 

 establish the reformed Religion, will 

 be found in Sir J. EMERSON TENNENT'S 

 Christianity in Ceylon ; together with 

 an exposition of the systems adopted 

 by the European and "American mis- 

 sions, and their influence on the Hindu 

 and Buddhist races, respectively. 



Those who seek to pursue the study 

 of Buddhism, its tenets and econo- 

 mies, as it exhibits itself in Ceylon, 

 will find ample details in the two 

 profound works published by Mr. 

 R. SPENCE HARDY : Eastern Mona- 

 chism, Lond. 1850, and A Manual of 

 Buddhism, in its Modern Development, 

 Lond. 1853. 



