Lectures from Colombo to Almora

Once more history is going'lo repeat itself. For to-day, uiidci the blasting light of modern science, when old, ami appaienlly strong and invulnerable beliefs have been shattered to their very foundations, when special claims laid u[)on the allegiance of mankind by different sects have been all blown into atoms and have vanished into air — when the sledge-hammer blows of modem antiquarian reseaiches are pulverising like masses of porcelain all soils of antiquated oithodoxies —when leligion in the West is only in the hands of the ignorant, and liic knowing ones look down with scorn upon anything belonging to religion, here comes to the fore the philosophy of India, which displays the highest religious aspirations of the Indian mind, where llie grandest philosophical facts ha\e been the practical spirituality of the people. This natuially is coming to the rescue, the idea of the oneness of all, the Infinite, the idea of the Impersonal, the wonderful idea of the eternal soul of man, of the unbroken continuity in the inarch of beings, and the infinity of the universe. The old sects looked upon the wot Id as a little mud-puddle, and ihouglil that time began but the other day. It was iheic in our old books, and only theic that the gland idea of the infinite range of lime, space and causation, and above all, the infinite glory of the spirit of man governed all the seaich for religion. When the modern tremendous theoiies of evolution and con.…