Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . ving in vain to do for centuries ; they revived their own faith,revived all their privileges and distinctions, drove Buddhisminto China and Burmah, and are to-day, as they were threethousand years ago, the most powerful class in India. Brah-minism is one of the oldest institutions in the worl
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . ving in vain to do for centuries ; they revived their own faith,revived all their privileges and distinctions, drove Buddhisminto China and Burmah, and are to-day, as they were threethousand years ago, the most powerful class in India. Brah-minism is one of the oldest institutions in the world, one of themost extraordinary developments of human intellect and dis-cipline, and there is no reason to suppose that its power overIndia will pass away. The religion whose exponents the Brahmins have been for INDIAN RELIGION. I I so many centuries, and which regards Benares as its holy city,is one of the strangest combinations of wisdom and folly. Itis a subject which interested me long before I ever dreamed ofcoming to India, and since I have been here I have takenoccasion to converse with Brahmins and Englishmen who knowIndia upon the philosophy and forms of the Hindoo the more you study it the more and more grotesque it be-comes. It reminds me somewhat of the Indian carpets you see. ON THE GANGES. in Agra and Delhi—masses of color thrown on other masses ineccentric confusion, without idea or sequence, and taking theircharm from this incoherence. Indian religion is a blaze ofcolor. It draws upon nature in every form—upon the birdsand beasts and creeping things ; upon antediluvian and pale-ozoic periods; upon the imaginations of poets; upon the winds,the clouds, the tempests, and the sun. All have their place inthis strange faith, and controlled as it has been by priests, whoKnew the value of mystery in the priestly office, it has beenthe aim of the expounders of the faith to shroud it with doubt, ii4 INDLL to make its meaning darker and darker, so that I ques
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