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 cated and common classes of people, and are equal to the words of a woman. Nor indeed would every author have the courage to add, "If one entirely depends on what a woman says one knows the result well enough." Few Parliamentary candidates in these days dare say as much! The Maharaja deals with religious questions in a down-right practical manner, the applications of which throughout the world's history would have changed the history of the world. The poet in that case would never have written :

"Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum."

The Maharaja, as becomes one who knows Europe and England well, allows exceptions to his rules. For instance, wives should obey husbands, but as among Christians the husband is not always older than the wife, the principle is not in their case applicable. Not so strictly applicable,