S. B. Thakur writes again to the Times scolding the
Archbishop of Canterbury for calling Hindoos heathen, and accusing him of
cool self-sufficiency," "self-satisfaction," contempt for heathen religions. and "condemnation of toleration." The Archbishop did not condemn toleration, but indifference, and for a student in the Temple to accuse him in this style of self-sufficieucy proves at least that S. B. Thakur understands the quality he is condemning. We should notice his letter, however, principally because he says "it is matter of merriment to educated heathens to see the different sects of Christians keeping up an incessant warfare with each other." Are the sects of Christians much more at vari- ance than the endless sects of Hindoos, Sivaites, Vaislinavu, &c., who, though they do not, it is true, pronounce the "mild curse of damnation" upon each other, do accuse each other, often falsely, of all the crimes under the sun ? Ask an orthodox Hindoo what he thiuks of the eight million followers of the Chaitanya., so ably described by a Hindoo in the present number of the Calcutta Review.
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