336 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Religious feeling penetrated Hindu society ; and the Hindu Triad 
—Brahma the ‘creator,’’ Vishnu the ‘‘ preserver,”’ and Siva the 
“ destroyer”—had foundation in the order of nature. Juggernath— 
the god of the people, the lord of the world, before whom all men 
were equal, and caste disappeared—was one of the forms of 
Krishna, who was the eighth incarnation of Vishnu. The Hindu 
family system fostered early marriage, cemented society, and 
lessened vice. Wealth, or social status, did not lead the native 
into folly as to food or clothing; the general prevailing health 
and vigour of body was the result of simple food and natural 
modes of life. Art, as it existed in the middle ages in Europe, 
and yet exists, had but little place in India. The Hindu and 
Mussulman philosophies were in stages of generalization beyond 
the influence of art, and greater than any art. Western civilization 
was in true ‘continuity’ with that of the East, as seen in race, 
language, mythology, and deeper method. Western nations had, 
since the time of the Roman empire, distorted Eastern writings, and 
closed out man’s view of truth by a false method of ‘‘ catastrophetic”’ 
assertion. In this generation India and Europe were again 
meeting; Europe giving India precision in knowledge of facts and 
science, and India giving Europe a way to great harmonizing 
generalizations in method. The exact sciences, and the great 
generalizations in knowledge, of modern Europe, such as gravi- 
tation, correlation of motion and the “ forces,” evolution or 
development (as a series or rate), alliances and evolution of 
languages, &c., &c., would be absorbed by the Hindu mind, and 
appear in the method of his philosophy. Rapid changes and 
developments of great national importance were going on in India. 
Hindu women and the more earnest types of English women should 
know each other; those Europeans who best knew the Hindu and 
Mussulman were those who respected and loved them most. The 
religious and social life of Mussulman and Hindu must be better 
known: then it would be honoured. The discovery of Sanscrit 
and the Aryan mythology had influenced, and was vastly influencing, 
European method; heightening our knowledge of, and respect for, 
the East. The simplicity of life of the Hindu and Mussulman, in 
respect to food, drink, clothing, and general habits, should have 
vast influence for good on the European. 
