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thy people, because they be replenished from the east, and are 

 soothsayers like the Philistines; their land also is full of idols; to 

 whom the mean man boweth down, and the great man humblelh 

 himself; but in that day the lofty look shall be humbled, and the 

 haughtiness of man shall be bowed down; and the Lord alone 

 shall be exalted: in that day, shall a man cast his idols of silver, 

 and his idols of gold, which they had made, each one for himself to 

 worship, to the moles and to the bats." 



Whatever might have been the animosities between the Hin- 

 doos and Mahomedans in the time of Baba-Rahan, or during 

 subsequent periods, it is certain, as an intelligent writer observes, 

 that now " the professors of both religions have acquired a habit 

 of looking on each other with an eye of indulgence unusual in 

 other countries between those who maintain such opposite tenets. 

 Thus the Hindoo is often seen to vie with the disciple of .Ali in 

 his demonstrations of grief for the fate of the two martyred sons 

 of that apostle; and in the splendour of the pageant annually ex- 

 hibited in their commemoration, he pays a respect to the holi- 

 days prescribed by the Koran, or set apart for the remembrance 

 of remarkable events in the life of the prophet or his apostles. 

 This degree of complaisance is perhaps not surprizing in the dis- 

 ciple of Brahma, whose maxim is, that the various modes of wor- 

 ship practised by the different nations of the earth, spring alike 

 from the Deity, and are equally acceptable to him; but even 

 they who follow the intolerant doctrines of the Koran are no lon- 

 ger those furious and sanguinary zealots, who, in the name of God 

 and his prophet, marked their course with desolation and slaughter, 

 demolishing the Hindoo temples, and erecting mosques on their 



