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Love breathes through the whole Christian dispensation. 

 "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart; and thy 

 neighbour as thyself. A new commandment give I unlo you, 

 that ye love one another." What jurisprudence ever reached this 

 excellent system? " Whatsoever ye would that men should do to 

 you, do ye even so to them." It supersedes every moral code; and 

 were the world at large actuated by the spirit of that single precept, 

 what a happy world would it be! Charity, seraphic guest, when 

 implanted in the christian's heart, how dost thou exalt human 

 nature! "Thou sufferesl long and art kind, thou enviest not, 

 seekest not thy own. art not easily provoked, thinkest no evil!" 

 What a heavenly portrait! Scarcely can it be believed that any 

 person acquainted with both systems, would wish to establish the 

 contracted scheme of Hinduism, the limitation of brahminism to 

 castes and sects, in opposition to this divine and universal system 

 of faith, hope, and love ! nay even to endeavour to exalt it above 

 this heavenly religion, by saying, " when it does as much for the 

 lower orders of society in Europe, as the Hindoo system has done 

 in India, they will vote for its establishment." I cannot withhold 

 my sentiments, feeble as they may be thought, against such power- 

 ful opponents. To endeavour to counteract them is a duly I owe 

 to truth, to feeling, to my country, and to fallen India, once called 

 the " land of virtues!" 



I have been asked by one of the most amiable men I know, 

 and one of the most valuable friends I ever possessed, why I 

 trouble myself so much about the Hindoos: why not allow mo- 

 thers to destroy their infants, widows to immolate themselves with 

 their husbands, and brahmins to pour boiling oil into the ears of the 



