Advanced Geography . Mexicans. RELIGIONS AND GOVERNMENTS. 105 90. Religions. People who worship idols, or objects such as the sun, fire,animals or images, are called pagans. As a rule, they believe that there are spirits havingmagical power to do good or evil. savages. Egyptian Woman. pagans. Most of them belong to the black and the red races, but there are many savages in each of the other races. About one seventh of the people on the earth are pagans. India is the seat of a very old reli-gion that divides its followers into classes called castes. Thefour principal castes are the priests, the
Advanced Geography . Mexicans. RELIGIONS AND GOVERNMENTS. 105 90. Religions. People who worship idols, or objects such as the sun, fire,animals or images, are called pagans. As a rule, they believe that there are spirits havingmagical power to do good or evil. savages. Egyptian Woman. pagans. Most of them belong to the black and the red races, but there are many savages in each of the other races. About one seventh of the people on the earth are pagans. India is the seat of a very old reli-gion that divides its followers into classes called castes. Thefour principal castes are the priests, the soldiers and rulers,the merchants, the servants. Below these are the outcasts. Brahma is one of the chief gods in this religion. The priestsare called Brahmans, and all the believers are Brahmanists. About one half of the people in India, or one tenthof mankind, are Brahmanists. Many centuries ago a prince in India taught that caste hadnothing to do with religion. He did not believe in a prince was called Buddha, and his followers are Buddhist religion in India soon passed away, but itspread over central and eastern Asia. Most of the people of the yellow race, or aboutone third of the human race, are Buddhists. The Semitic branch of thew
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