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IS 221.2 Story of an Emigrant.
hospitals for the sick and asylums for the poor were
established. Every fifth year the Buddhistic kings gave awav
their riches, not only to the monks but also to the poor,
to the orphans and outcasts, and even asylums for sick
animals were established. But Brahminism soon avenged
itself by bloody wars, Buddhism was to a large extent
driven out of India, and gradually its noble principles were
forgotten. Nearly the same condition as that which
prevailed before the Buddhistic reformation again prevailed,
until the Christian civilization quite recently began to make
itself felt through the practical measures introduced by the
English government. Woman without liberty, without
human worth, and almost without virtue; the countless many
oppressed and despised by the privileged few, and not even
allowed to read a religious book at the risk of eternal
damnation ; one of the greatest and mightiest nations on earth,
discordant within itself, divided into different hostile classes;
the one suspicious, envious, and full of hate toward the
other, all of them humiliated, conquered, and ruled by a
few strangers,—the English,—whose forefathers were
savages a thousand years after the period when the Hindoos
possessed the highest civilization of antiquity.
The cause of this deplorable condition is clear enough to
those who have grown up under the influence of Christian
civilization. With all its studies, all its wisdom, all its
genius, and all its religious contemplation, this people have
neglected or spurned the simple truths on which the Christian
civilization is founded,—love and charity : "Thou shalt lore
thy neighbor as thyself."—"Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it
unto me,"—these beautiful principles are not found in the
Hindoo Bibles, and, consequently, not in their acts and
lives.
But a happier day has dawned on India. The star of
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