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Identifier: americanencyclop00blak (find matches)
Title: The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: (Blake, William O.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history Biography
Publisher: Columbus, Published by J. & H. Miller
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the other castes, and which, in process of
time, has grown so large as to include, it is said, one-fifth of the population
of Hindoostan. The Pariahs perform the meanest kinds of manual labor.
This system of castes — of which the Brahmins themselves, whom some
suppose to have been originally a conquering race, are the architects, if not
the founders — is bound up with the religion of the Hindoos. Indeed of the
Hindoos, more truly than of any other people, it may be said that a knowl-
edge of their religious system is a knowledge of the people themselves.
The Vedas, or ancient sacred books of the Hindoos, distinctly set forth
the doctrine of the infinite and Eternal Supreme Being. According to the
Vedas, there is one unknown, true Being, all present, all powerful, the cre-
ator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe. This Supreme Being is not
comprehensible by vision, or by any other of the organs of sense, nor can h
ebe conceived by means of devotion or virtuous practices. He is not space,
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  • booksubject:World_history
  • booksubject:Biography
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