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On the Use and Abuse of Literary and Ecclesiastical Endowments
  • Thomas Chalmers
  • Published online:
    05 May 2012
    Print publication:
    22 December 2011
    First published in:
    1827
  • Scottish minister and social reformer Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) is famous as the leader of the group of 470 ministers who left the Church of Scotland in 1843 to found the Free Church of Scotland, and as the author (in 1834) of the first Bridgewater Treatise (also reissued in this collection). Along with his theological interests, Chalmers was deeply concerned with educational reform in schools and universities. In 1827 he published this paper on university endowments, asserting that it was the state's responsibility to support religious and educational institutions, because churches, schools, and universities maintained the nation's Christian principles and character. Chalmers argued that only endowed national establishments were capable of ensuring the religious and moral well-being of the individual. In addition to his appeal for university endowments, he also advocated (unusually for his time) the extension of full civil rights to dissenters and Catholics.

A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos
  • Including a Minute Description of their Manners and Customs, and Translations from their Principal Works
  • Volume 4, The Philosophical Systems of the Hindoos
  • William Ward
  • Published online:
    29 August 2010
    Print publication:
    25 February 2010
    First published in:
    1820
  • William Ward's account of the Hindu communities among whom he served as a Baptist missionary in Serampore in West Bengal was first published in 1811 and reprinted in this third edition in 1817. It was an extremely influential work that shaped British views of the newly defined entity of 'Hinduism' in the early nineteenth century. Ward and his fellow missionaries promoted social reforms and education, establishing the Serampore Mission Press in 1800 and Serampore College in 1818. Ward devoted twenty years to compiling his study of Hindu literature, history, mythology and religion, which was eventually published in four volumes. It provided richly detailed information, and was regarded as authoritative for the next fifty years. It is still an important source for researchers in areas including Indian history, British colonialism, Orientalism and religious studies. Volume 4 includes translations from Hindu sacred texts and philosophical writings, and Ward's own reflections on education.

  • INTRODUCTION

  • William Ward
  • Book:
    A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos
    Published online:
    29 August 2010
    Print publication:
    25 February 2010, pp xiii-xlviii
    First published in:
    1820

  • Summary

    The Hindoos attribute many of their ancient writings to the gods; but for the origin of the védŭ, they go still higher, and declare it to have been from everlasting. When we look into the védŭ itself, however, we there find the names of the authors; and that all the books composing what is called the védŭ have had an earthly origin.

    The period when the most eminent of the Hindoo philosophers flourished, is still involved in much obscurity; but, the apparent agreement, in many striking particulars, between the Hindoo and the Greek systems of philosophy, not only suggests the idea of some union in their origin, but strongly pleads for their belonging to one age, notwithstanding the unfathomable antiquity claimed by the Hindoos; and, after the reader shall have compared the two systems, the author is persuaded he will not consider the conjecture as improbable, that Pythagoras and others did really visit India, or, that Goutŭmŭ and Pythagoras were contemporaries, or nearly so. If this be admitted, it will follow, that the dŭrshŭnŭs were written about five hundred years before the Christian æra. The védŭs, we may suppose, were not written many years before the dŭrshŭnŭs, for Kopilŭ, the founder of the Sankhyŭ sect, was the grandson of Mŭnoo, the preserver and promulgator of the first aphorisms of the védŭs; Goutŭmŭ, the founder of the Noiyayikŭ sect, married the daughter of Brŭmha, the first male: and Kŭnadŭ and Pŭtŭnjŭlee, the founders of two other of these schools, belonged to the same, or nearly the same period.

A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos
  • Including a Minute Description of their Manners and Customs, and Translations from their Principal Works
  • Volume 3, The History, Manners and Customs of the Hindoos
  • William Ward
  • Published online:
    05 April 2012
    Print publication:
    02 October 2010
    First published in:
    1820
  • William Ward's account of the Hindu communities among whom he served as a Baptist missionary in Serampore in West Bengal was first published in 1811 and reprinted in this third edition in 1817. It was an extremely influential work that shaped British views of the newly defined entity of 'Hinduism' in the early nineteenth century. Ward and his fellow missionaries promoted social reforms and education, establishing the Serampore Mission Press in 1800 and Serampore College in 1818. Ward devoted twenty years to compiling his study of Hindu literature, history, mythology and religion, which was eventually published in four volumes. It provided richly detailed information, and was regarded as authoritative for the next fifty years. It is therefore still an important source for researchers in areas including Indian history, British colonialism, Orientalism and religious studies. Volume 3 focuses on the social history of India, the caste system, and birth rituals.

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