Excerpt from The Philosophy of Brahmaism, Expounded With Reference to Its History: Lectures Delivered Before the Theological Society, Calcutta, in 1906-1907
To write a somewhat comprehensive treatise on the principles of Theism, one in which the philosophical basis of these principles should be shewn with some fullness, and the chief duties of life, the devotional exercises current in the theistic churches of India and the social ideals of the Brahma Samaj, should find an adequate exposition, has been an object of desire and aspiration with the author from his earliest youth. Bat his life has been a hard struggle throughout - a struggle for very existence - which has left him little time for thought and study, and far less for writing. His earlier tracts and booklets, Gleams of the New Light, The Roots of Faith, Whispers from the Inner Life, Sadhanbindu, etc., only expressed, without realizing, this desire and aspiration. In his Brahmajijnasa, the theistic argument, the proof for the existence and attributes of God, perhaps attained some fullness; but the other principles of religion were left wholly untouched. In his annotations on the Upanishads and his Bengali and English translations of them, as well as in his Hindu Theism and Vedanta and its Relation to Modern Thought, he made a humble attempt to interpret the old Theism of the country and its relation to the present theistic movement.
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