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Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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universe is tending,into what state allthe material aspectsof animate and in-animate nature willfall at the conclu-sion of the universalcareer. This species of in-quiry at length pre-dominated over theother, and the Brah-mans began to teachthe final conditionof the universe, in-cluding man. Theycalled it brahma,using the same termthat they had em-ployed as the name of the creator ofall things, but in another The believersense. Henceforth the aim raL^^lch^sand endeavor of the wor- to receive him.shiper must be, not so much to acquainthimself with this creator and his will, asto know that other brahma which standsin shadowy outline at the further verge ofnature, ready to receive and swallow up- THE INDICANS.—RELIGION.all forms and aspects of the visible uni 665 verse. No contrast can be stronger than thatwhich is thus oifered between the into moods of meditative gloom andsheer brooding over the desperation ofhuman life. A sort of astrology sprangup in place of the vivid concepts which
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CYCLE OF TRANSMIGRATIONS ACCORDING TO A THIBETAN IMAGE. bright and happy Vedic religion as itexisted in the days of the Contrast of the old and the new- old pOCtS wllO SaUg the er Brahmanism. . .^ . ., /■ * primitive hymns or Arya,and that fatalistic spell which has fallenupon the mind of India, transforming it43 the old bards had had of the visiblepowers of nature. The whole spirit andgenius of the Indie race were turned tothe darkest problems and most inscru-table mysteries of destiny and fate.As a natural consequence of this 666 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. brooding over the transmutation of oneform of visible nature into another, andSource of the SO on and on to the final^^^^^ plunge into that brahmaof souls. which they regarded as the end, even as the other Brahma was thebeginning of all creation, there arosethe notion of the transmigration of thehuman soul. The concept of a grada-tion up and down through all animatenature took firm hold of the mind, al-ready bound in fatalism. The

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