Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . o greatnumbers as in Assam. Here the lan-guage and the general character of thepeople is properly Indo- Grading off ofChinese; and the race der- gS££oE°ivation from beyond still strongly than in Assam discrimi-nates the ethnic type from that of census of 1872 gives a populationfor the whole of Burmah of two millionseven hundred and forty thousand, or anaverage of thirty-one to the square m
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . o greatnumbers as in Assam. Here the lan-guage and the general character of thepeople is properly Indo- Grading off ofChinese; and the race der- gS££oE°ivation from beyond still strongly than in Assam discrimi-nates the ethnic type from that of census of 1872 gives a populationfor the whole of Burmah of two millionseven hundred and forty thousand, or anaverage of thirty-one to the square these, the vast preponderance areBuddhists. The Mohammedans num-ber about a hundred thousand, and the THE JNDICANS.—SUPERSTITIONS. 735 Hindus only thirty-six thousand. Ofthe whole number, one hundred and tenthousand are still classified as is probable that India presents agreater variety of superstitions in an in-tenser form than any other country ofExtent and va- the world. Except in thelower districts of heathen-ism, such as South x\fricafurnishes, the general fact called super-stition has relaxed its hold somewhat riety of theHindu declining, losing its dominion and powerover the mind of man. To this generalfact India is somewhat exceptional. Thepeculiar tendencies of the Indian mindunder the influence and discipline ofBrahmanism have been unfavorable tothe reception and dissemination of sci-entific knowledge. The Indian mindfurnishes an example of a comparativelyhigh development in abstract thought,in the ability to generalize and deduceconclusions from established conceptsand premises. The inferential powerof the human intellect as it is displayedin these countries is not to be despised,but the inductive method of inquiry hasnever found footing among them. Thedisposition to scrutinize and questionthe processes of the material world andto find out the laws which govern naturehas not appeared, and the old supersti-tions of paganism
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