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tered by one of an inferior caste is dreadful to the ear of a brah- 

 min; and Major Moor mentions that an English gentleman who 

 had the letters and the sound of the Gai/otri, something similar to 

 the above, and who, without knowing the result, began to recite 

 it audibly in the presence of a pious pundit, the astonished brah- 

 min stopped his ears, and hastened terrified from his presence. 

 Allowing therefore this spiritual worship, and these sublime con- 

 ceptions, to the brahmins, which is every thing that can be ex- 

 pected, how few among thirty millions of Hindoos are admitted 

 to this high privilege! how few, comparatively, even worship the 

 triad deity, to whom the Supreme Being is supposed to have dele- 

 gated his power, from being himself removed above all concern 

 for his creatures! Julius Caesar assigns it as a reason why the 

 ancient druids would not allow their laws to be committed to 

 writing, that their mysteries might not be rendered common to the 

 vulgar, and profaned by them. The same pride and uncharitable- 

 ness, pervading the institutes of Menu, enjoins that " if a Suder 

 reads the Vedas to either of the other three castes, or listens to 

 them, heated oil, wax, and melted tin, shall be poured into his 

 ears, and the orifice stopped up; and that if a Suder gets the 

 scriptures by heart, he shall be put to death." 



How different is this rejection from the gracious invitation by 

 the evangelical prophet: " Ho! every one that thirsteth, come ye 

 to the waters ; and he that hath no money, come buy and eat ; 

 yea, come, buy wine and milk, without money and without price! 

 Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall 

 live!" How opposite is this cruel distinction of the brahmins, to 

 these gentle words of the benevolent Saviour: " Come unto me, 



