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Show 1h lMi,llli f In.lU. "Tho pates of tho Hindoo l'anlhoou am neer shut," S,r John Slrsehey li. finely obnerved. Tho trulh ct thn ru mark Is likely to roouh u a ruilom lllus (ration In the results of thocriwus In tlio iNorlliweit iinnlnciw nnd Ou.le A novelty of ths ocitsua wns n sepnrato , Inulileatlon for tho various sects of Hindoos and Mnhoiiietaus. Soot, how ever, Imjilla n di-tlnlto rollgloiu ereod, uiih diutiiuitlio tonets, from which a limited iiuiubor of tchlauiiitles lime ill "rged; hut so far as Hhidooiuii Is ronoenied, at all oiouts, wo hava no iu h eri ed, und If wo aro to apply tho toriii soet to tha hoterogeneoui groups of worthlpers Yll0 coll tlicnuehes Uln disii wo mint lintorl illy modify IU ordinary slguIOoatlou. As a nutter of faet, tho census cnu inerators found that tho ordinary Hln dtKi did not know what win itisant when hownsatke,! what hUsoetnoa, All ho eoul 1 say win thu parllouhr god ho wonhlpod Tho couiKquiMicu It that the rontiis jMpor aro crowdml wltlinviut number of trlbilnnl Ijcnl pods and deities, many of which li i o noi er been heard of before, and will I In all probability neier bo heard of ncaln Vlonefli- |
