Without it, trade would come to a standstill at once.

Our whole mercantile system, a modern piece of mechanism unknown to the East till we imported it thither, turns on an implicit belief in the word of one's neighbor.

Our legal safeguards would snap like red tape were the great bond of mutual trust once broken.

Western civilization has to be truthful, or perish.
And now for the spirits of the two beliefs.
The soul of any religion realizes in one respect the Brahman idea of the individual soul of man, namely, that it exists much after the manner of an onion, in many concentric envelopes.

Man, they tell us, is composed not of a single body simply, but of several layers of body, each shell as it were respectively inclosing another.