orm, enter the church to use it as an instrument for
social progress. So the church is divided, theists and reformers both
being at odds with the original deists; and the founder is lucky if he
escapes being deified by one party and being looked upon by the other
as too dull.[114]

India is no more prepared as a whole for the reception of the liberal
views of the Sam[=a]j; than was the negro for the right to vote.
Centuries of higher preliminary education are needed before the people
at large renounce their ancestral, their natural faith. A few earnest
men may preach deism; the people will remain polytheists and
pantheists for many generations. Then, again, the Sam[=a]jas have to
contend not only with the national predisposition, but with every
heretical sect, and, besides these, with the orthodox church. But thus
far their chief foe is, after all, their own heart as opposed to their
head. As long as deistic leaders are deified by their followers, and
regard themselves as peculiarly inspired, they will preach in vain.
Nor can they with impunity favor the substitution of emotion for ideas
in a land where religious emotion leads downwards as surely as falls a
stone that is thrown.

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: In the following we keep to the practice we
have adopted in the early part of the work, giving
anglicized words without distinction of vowel-length, and
anglicizing as far as possible, writing thus S[=a]nkhya but
Sankhyan, Ved[=a]nta but Vedantist. In modern proper names
we have adopted in each case the most familiar form.]

[Footnote 2: Rig Veda, II. 12. Compare X. 121. We omit some
of the verses.]

[Footnote 3: See note, p. 20, above.]

[Footnote 4: Metaphor from earthly fire-making; cloud and
cliff (Ludwig); or, perhaps, heaven and earth.]

[Footnote 5: 'Made low and put in concealment' the D[=a]sa
color, _i.e._ the black barbarians, the negroes. 'Color'
might be translated 'race' (subsequently 'caste').]

[Footnote 6: D[=i]ce, _vijas_, literally 'hoppers' (and so
sometimes, interpreted as birds). The same figure occurs not
infrequently. Compare AV. iv. 16. 5, _ak[s.][=a]n iva_.
'Believe,' _cr['a]d-dhatta, i.e_., cred-(d)[=i]te, literally
'put trust.']

[Footnote 7: Sometimes rendered, "a true (laudation) if any
is true."]

[Footnote 8: viii. 10