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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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ed forms, the mere outer garb which the Brahmans flung around the ancient religion of the East. One other topic remains to be considered before the Vedic system of religious evolution is dismissed. The spirit of the old faith had died out many centuries before the Christian era. On the tongues of the priests even the Apparition of sakya Gautama apostrophes of the old rhap- the Buddha. -,. . , , ■, * sodists and seers had be-come an echo and a mockery. It was under such circumstances, in the latter part of the sixth century B. C, that the great reform was instituted which was destined to carry on its tide more than thirty per cent of the human race. It originated with vSakya Gautama, commonly called the Buddha, Prince of Kapilavastu, in Northern India. But the reform, like that of Luther in the West, was already prepared, in its elementary conditions, by a reaction in the mind of the upper classes against the absolutism and uselessness of the Brahmanic order. The career of Gautama is now accessi-
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SIVA AS MAN AND WOMAN. ble in many forms to English readers,and need not be repeated, career and evan- Tt wis in o-pikm-iI that gelisraoftheit was, in general, uiai »Enlightened of a sincere and elevated One.mind, highly sensitive in its organization and inspired by philanthropy, re- 670 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. belling against the current religious system of his country and people. He retires, as if into the desert. He muses long on life and destiny. He communes with himself and with the invisible Spirit. He struggles and writhes in anguish and despair. Light breaks in to his understanding. He becomes the Buddha, the Enlightened One. He

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