[The Ruins by C. F. Volney]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ruins CHAPTER XXI 24/27
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de Huns. ** That is to say, from the pious romances formed out of the sacred legends of the mysteries of Mithra, Ceres, Isis, etc., from whence are equally derived the books of the Hindoos and the Bonzes.
Our missionaries have long remarked a striking resemblance between those books and the gospels. M.Wilkins expressly mentions it in a note in the Bhagvat Geeta.
All agree that Krisna, Fot, and Jesus have the same characteristic features: but religious prejudice has stood in the way of drawing from this circumstance the proper and natural inference.
To time and reason must it be left to display the truth. At these words, the Christians set up a general cry, and a new dispute was about to begin; when a number of Chinese Chamans, and Talapoins of Siam, came forward and said that they would settle the whole controversy.
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