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nnth of the metempsychosis! may they be taught the resurrection 

 of the body, its reunion with the soul, and the unchangeable state 

 of the righteous and wicked, at the final day of retribution, in 

 realms of bliss, among angels and purified spirits in the Paradise 

 of God; or, in a state of alienation from his beatific presence, 

 Avith evil doers, in the abodes of misery and woe ! 



Let not this subject be placed upon a level with the cui bono of 

 mundane speculations; they must come to an end: but here, the 

 blessings of heaven and earth, the blessings of time and eternity, 

 the justice and the mercy of God, all conspire to magnify its im- 

 portance ! 



Mella jubes Hyblaea tibi, vel Hymettia nasei^ 



Et thyma Cecropise Corsica ponis api. Mart. 



Alas ! my friend, you try in vain 



Impossibilities to gain : 



No bee from Corsica's rank juice 



Hyblsean honey can produce. Lewis. 



The preceding remarks, amplified since my return to England, 

 were originally written under the brahminical groves in Guzerat; 

 so were most of the following observations; which, with mingled 

 sensations, I have copied and enlarged from those manuscripts. 

 By some, the ensuing pages may be thought irrelevant to the 

 general subject of these volumes; many, I trust, will be of a dif- 

 ferent opinion. I have been for some time undetermined whether 

 to indroduce them in part, or entirely to suppress them. Diffi- 

 dence suggested the latter : a hope of doing some good to the 

 rising generation, and especially in endeavouring to give a proper 

 bias to the yet unprejudiced mind in India, prompts me to bring 



