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Well sorrounded by dark foliage this beautiful structure of white marble shows out to much advantage Theological writers when reviewing the religion of Buddha point out its close resemblance to Christianity; Bacon writing his Essay on Superstition probably had the fact in view when penning the lines:—Again superstition without a veil, is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to an Ape to be so like a Man; so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed.”