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Religious Controversy in India.

A VERY curious controversy has lately taken place in Calcutta, between the Missionaries and the celebrated Ram Mohun Roy. This latter personage is a native of India, and distinguished for his opulence, his superiour talents, his very great learning, and especially for having of his own accord early renounced the theology of his countrymen, and asserted the doctrine of the divine unity.

His first writings were designed to prove, that the ancient books of Hindu theology, in their original state, did not sanction polytheism, nor idol worship. These, he contended, were additions, which had been engrafted into the primitive system, deformed its simplicity, and corrupted its purity. About five years ago he published in the English language, extracts from the Vedas, or Sacred Books of the Hindus, for the purpose of establishing this point.*

In the course of the late controversy, speaking of himself in the third person, he says, that "although he was

* Other particulars respecting this subject may be seen in the first volume of the Miscellany, p. 75.

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