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 INTRODUCTION.

We propose to treat our subject under five heads — Religious Condition, Socio-Religious Condition, Religion, not a sure criterion of civilisation. Social Condition, Industrial Condition, and Intellectual Condition.* As a test of civilisation, the last is the most important, and we propose to devote to it the third and fourth volumes of this work. With regard to religious con- dition, which forms the subject of the first Book, there is not the same accordance in the standard of religious progress as there is in that of intellectual progress. The Hindus judge of the intellectual productions of the of it as is capable of historica' treatment will be dealt with in this Introduction and in Books II and III.
 * Moral condition is also of the highest importance. As much