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tions of melted butter. And in the long run thuir minds, which somehow, the hocus~pocus Qf the suc. rificr: hurl wither deadened nor satisfied, rum: to those higher and permanent ruquircmunts which led to practical abandonment of the. sacriﬁce and lasting devotion to philosephic religion.

The: question, next, as to who carried on the higher religion has been anawurccl incidentally in what has just been said. If whth is stated thch is stated Chrrectly, we shall nut g0 astray if we asaaumc that the Brahmans were the mainspriug in the ad.» vance of higher thought, just as they were the main factors in the worship of the geds and in cummonial practices. But this same question requires to be stated more preciser for the fallowing reason. A number of distinguished scholars have recently ad. vanced the theory that Hindu thcosophy is not, as has been tacitly assumed, in the main the: product of Brahmauical intellect, but that it was due to the spiritual insight of the Royal or Warrior Caste}

Professor Gal-be of the University of Ti‘ibiugcn, an eminent student of Hindu philosophy and at the same time a. scholar well versed in the early literature of the Vedas, is the most ardent advo-r

1 See Deussen, A Zlgemez'm Garr/iz'r/zz'e :er Pﬁifvryizz'a v01. ‘1... part 2, pp. 35417.; Gnrbe, Eaz'z’rct'ge zur fudirrﬁm K’ulmrgrsrﬁz’rbta, pp. 3 ji; Winternitz, Gas-Miriam dart Indira/32m Littemmr, pp. 196

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