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144 the common" basis of
such shuffling and evasion have any just claim to *the
character of a man of learning, or a man of probity ?
What name is bestowed on the man who thus shrinks
from meeting the arguments of his opponent' fairly and
candidly, and trembling at the force of truth, is glad (to
make his escape by any mean subterfuge ?
It is almost self-degradation or a prostitution of reason
to treat his last remark, above quoted, as worthy of notice
viz. that as "Buddhists despise many of the Gods wor-
shipped by the Hindoos, it hence follows that some of the
Hindoo deities must be subjects of their "adoration"—
Indeed ! ! In what school of wisdom did the learned
Doctor acquire his Logic ? Although I despise or dislike
several members of a family, is this a proof that I must
adore the rest ? May I not regard the rest with indiffer-
ence, or be unacquainted with them ? But granting even
that Buddhists do worship some of the Hindoo Gods,
while they despise others, may they not still be inimical
to Hindooism ? For, don't the Jews despise one of the
Christian Gods, worship another, and are indifferent to
a third and yet are they • not inveterate enemies of
Christianity ?
I now only wish to know from what College or Univer-
sity the Doctor procured a Certificate, authorizieg him to
assume the Title of M. D. and whether that seat of
Learning is the distribution of its Academic Honors usually
selects such worthy objects.
I am, Sir, your obedient ServenI,
Thursday 22nd May, 1823. Ram Doss.
P. S. I congratulate the Doctor on his victory (as
reported by himself in your paper of to-day) over our
common enemies the Unitarians (these deluded deniers-
such shuffling and evasion have any just claim to *the
character of a man of learning, or a man of probity ?
What name is bestowed on the man who thus shrinks
from meeting the arguments of his opponent' fairly and
candidly, and trembling at the force of truth, is glad (to
make his escape by any mean subterfuge ?
It is almost self-degradation or a prostitution of reason
to treat his last remark, above quoted, as worthy of notice
viz. that as "Buddhists despise many of the Gods wor-
shipped by the Hindoos, it hence follows that some of the
Hindoo deities must be subjects of their "adoration"—
Indeed ! ! In what school of wisdom did the learned
Doctor acquire his Logic ? Although I despise or dislike
several members of a family, is this a proof that I must
adore the rest ? May I not regard the rest with indiffer-
ence, or be unacquainted with them ? But granting even
that Buddhists do worship some of the Hindoo Gods,
while they despise others, may they not still be inimical
to Hindooism ? For, don't the Jews despise one of the
Christian Gods, worship another, and are indifferent to
a third and yet are they • not inveterate enemies of
Christianity ?
I now only wish to know from what College or Univer-
sity the Doctor procured a Certificate, authorizieg him to
assume the Title of M. D. and whether that seat of
Learning is the distribution of its Academic Honors usually
selects such worthy objects.
I am, Sir, your obedient ServenI,
Thursday 22nd May, 1823. Ram Doss.
P. S. I congratulate the Doctor on his victory (as
reported by himself in your paper of to-day) over our
common enemies the Unitarians (these deluded deniers-