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the common basis of
This Hindoo with whom I have no personal acquain-
tance had the arrogance to lay before the public the
following passage " I now call on the public to pronounce
whether this query can be considered as a reply to the
arguments contained in my letter forwarded to the Doctor
repelling his offensive insinuations and proving that
Hindooism and Christianity are founded on the same
basis ?" Ram Doss here appeals to the public, and he
will of course grant me the same privilege. I will
therefore ask,—Christian Readers, are you so far
degraded by Asiatic effeminacy as to behold with
indifference your holy and immaculate Religion thus
degraded by having it placed on an equality with Hin-
dooism—with rank idolatry—with disgraceful ignorance
and shameful superstition ?
Will Ram Doss or his associates be pleased to inform
me, if the Incarnation of his God was foretold by Pro-
phets through a period of four thousand years ? Or will
he demonstrate the mission or divine incarnation of his
Deity by incontestable and stupendous miracles such as
Christ wrought? Will he assert that the doctrine of Hin-
dooism is as pure and undefiled as that of Christianity ?
Or in fine, will he prove that the human character has
ever been exalted by any religious system so much as by
the sweet influence of Christianity ?
If Ram Doss is not able satisfactorily to clear up a
single point of what I now submit to his serious consi-
deration, it is manifest, that in common civility, he should
refrain from insulting Christians by putting their religion
on a comparison with Hindooism.
Ram Mohun Roy, who'appears to me to be the most
learned of the Hindoos, is so far from making such
the common basis of
This Hindoo with whom I have no personal acquain-
tance had the arrogance to lay before the public the
following passage " I now call on the public to pronounce
whether this query can be considered as a reply to the
arguments contained in my letter forwarded to the Doctor
repelling his offensive insinuations and proving that
Hindooism and Christianity are founded on the same
basis ?" Ram Doss here appeals to the public, and he
will of course grant me the same privilege. I will
therefore ask,—Christian Readers, are you so far
degraded by Asiatic effeminacy as to behold with
indifference your holy and immaculate Religion thus
degraded by having it placed on an equality with Hin-
dooism—with rank idolatry—with disgraceful ignorance
and shameful superstition ?
Will Ram Doss or his associates be pleased to inform
me, if the Incarnation of his God was foretold by Pro-
phets through a period of four thousand years ? Or will
he demonstrate the mission or divine incarnation of his
Deity by incontestable and stupendous miracles such as
Christ wrought? Will he assert that the doctrine of Hin-
dooism is as pure and undefiled as that of Christianity ?
Or in fine, will he prove that the human character has
ever been exalted by any religious system so much as by
the sweet influence of Christianity ?
If Ram Doss is not able satisfactorily to clear up a
single point of what I now submit to his serious consi-
deration, it is manifest, that in common civility, he should
refrain from insulting Christians by putting their religion
on a comparison with Hindooism.
Ram Mohun Roy, who'appears to me to be the most
learned of the Hindoos, is so far from making such