India and its Faiths. By J. B. Pratt. (Constable and
Co. 12s. 6d net.)—Professor Pratt, who holds a Chair of Philosophy in a New Eng- land College, spent a year in India before the war, and studied the many religions which he found there. He is a sympathetic observer, and has tried dispassionately to show the best sides of Hinduism, Jainism, the Parsee faith, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism. His chapters on the Hindu reform movements, the Brahma and Aryls Samaj, are note- worthy. His desire to be impartial lends additional value to his tribute to the Christian missions. In comparing the rival faiths, he lays stress on " the practical methods by which Christianity is applied." No other religion, he says, has a body of educated and right-living men comparable to our Christian clergy, making it their business to teach the people and set them a good example. On the other hand, he reminds us that we have something to loam from the East.
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