For this crime he now stands condemned as a falsifier of
the records of his forefathers. A place has been hitherto purposely
left open for India "to be filled up when the pure metal of history
should have been extracted from the ore of Brahmanic exaggeration and
superstition." Unable, however, to meet this programme, the Orientalist
has since persuaded himself that there was nothing in that "ore" but
dross. He did more. He applied himself to contrast Brahmanic
"superstition" and "exaggeration" with Mosaic revelation and its
chronology. The Veda was confronted with Genesis. Its absurd claims to
antiquity were forthwith dwarfed to their proper dimensions by the 4,004
years B.C. measure of the world's age; and the Brahmanic "superstition
and fables" about the longevity of the Aryan Rishis, were belittled and
exposed by the sober historical evidence furnished in "The genealogy and
age of the Patriarchs from Adam to Noah," whose respective days were 930
and 950 years; without mentioning Methuselah, who died at the premature
age of nine hundred and sixty-nine.
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