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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Huxley and Slade: Who is More Guilty of “False Pretences”?|1-187}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Huxley and Slade: Who is More Guilty of “False Pretences”?|1-187}} | ||
to produce out of herself every animate and inanimate form, and ''to change one form to another''. “Therefore in like manner,” says the sacred book, “the man who has such a knowledge (of the Mantras) obtains the faculty of assuming any shape or form he likes.” | {{Style P-No indent|to produce out of herself every animate and inanimate form, and ''to change one form to another''. “Therefore in like manner,” says the sacred book, “the man who has such a knowledge (of the Mantras) obtains the faculty of assuming any shape or form he likes.”}} | ||
It will scarcely be said that this allegory is capable of more than one interpretation, viz.: that the ancient Hindus many centuries before the Christian era taught the doctrine of evolution. Martin Haug, the Sanskrit scholar, asserts that the Vedas were already in existence from 2,000 to 2,200 B.C. | It will scarcely be said that this allegory is capable of more than one interpretation, viz.: that the ancient Hindus many centuries before the Christian era taught the doctrine of evolution. Martin Haug, the Sanskrit scholar, asserts that the Vedas were already in existence from 2,000 to 2,200 B.C. | ||