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The Great Variety in India's Religious Systems—The Early

Monotheistic Nature Worship and its Gradual Lapse Into

Polytheism—The Influence of Environment on the Development of

Systems—The Distinction between Aryanism and Brahmanism, and the

Abuses of the Latter in its Doctrines of Sacrifice and Caste—The

Causes which Led to the Overthrow of this System of

Sacerdotalism—The Upanishads and the Beginnings of Philosophy—The

Rise of Buddhism and the Six Schools of Philosophy—Points in

Common between them—The Code of Manu and its Countercheck to

Rationalism—Its Development and its Scope, its Merits and

Demerits—The Meaning of the Word Hinduism as here Used and the

Means by which it Gained Ascendency—The Place and Influence of the

Two Great Hindu Epics, their Origin, the Compromise which they

Wrought, and the New and Important Doctrines which They

Developed—The Trimurti and the Incarnations of Vishnu—The

Deterioration of the Literature and the Faith of India—The Puranas

and the Tantras—The Parallels between Hinduism and Christianity.