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ఇందును గూర్చి సారజ్ఞులగు పాశ్చాత్యు లిట్లు వ్రాయుచున్నారు.
"The pure Hindu religion recognises and admits but one God, thus defined by the Veda- 'Him who exists by himself, and who is in all, because all is in him. Manu annotating the Veda Says.-Him who exists by himself, whom the spirit alone can perceive, who is imperceptible to the organs of sense, who is without visible parts, eternal, the soul of all beings & whom none can comprehend. (Jacolliot the President of the Court of Justice at Chandronagore.
"The Vedas are of paramount importance in the religious history of man. In them we find depicted in glowing colors, the religious thoughts and sentiments of a race of men, who were unacquainted with the vices and luxuries, which are almost always the accompaniments of more civilized ages. They unfold to us how the Aryan mind at first plunged in holy theistic ideas, devoted to the worship of the elements, subsequently came to follow pure theism,- & to worship the one unchangeabe and immaterial being, who is, as at were, the pevot upon which this universal frame turns'
