Word: hinduism
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...same plane with man. Mohammedanism fails in five respects: there is no place in it for the little child; it has corrupted the home and degraded woman; its dogmatism has confined and demoralized the intellect; it is a great enemy to democracy; and it is spiritually a failure. Hinduism makes actions synonymous with sin, and has no doctrine of immortality in the highest sense nor of conflict with and redemption from...
Each religion has its keynote; that of Confucianism was order, of Zoroastrianism conflict, of Hinduism reality, and of Hebraism, holiness. Every religion is the idealism of the thought of the nation that brought it forth. Therefore to understand the religion of a nation one must study that nation's characteristics. The Hebrews were originally a nomadic tribe and as such possessed a nomadic cult, which had much in common with the later monotheistic idea. Like all nations, the Hebrews had two sides to their national character. The world y ambition and soldiery qualities of the Maccabees and the like...