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justice, truth, unselfishness, benevolence and
morality, and not in animal sacrifices or ‘empty
simulacrum’ of elaborate rites.
(3) All the inhuman and cruel distinc-
tions between man and man were abolished,
and the tyrannical institution of caste was
overturned. The high and the low, the rich
and the poor were all regarded as equals in
the eye of religion.-
(4) The most horrible priestly tyranny
crumbled away before his attack never to recur
with its former force.
(5) Polygamy was condemned in the
harshest possible language; and it argued
moral depravity in the accused.
(6) Woman was considered her husband’s
partner in all that he did. Her rights were
strictly recognized, and she was “ allowed to
develop her spiritual life.”
(7) Slavery was for the first time abolish-
ed, and a pure belief in the Brotherhood of
Man and the Fatherhood of God entertained.
(8) “ The principle of relegious propag-
 
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