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Ram Mohan Roy
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“Truth and Virtue do not necessarily belong to wealth and Power and Distinctions of Big Mansions.”
Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833) said by 1833 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from Goel, S. R. (2016). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Chapter 8 ISBN 9788185990354
“Roy’s resentment of Christians as ‘persons who travel to a distant country for the purpose of overturning the opinions of its inhabitants and introducing their own’.”
Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833) said by 1833 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in Tom Holland - Dominion_ The Making of the Western Mind-Little, Brown (2019)
“The editor perhaps may consider himself justified by numerous precedents among the several partisans of different Christian sects in applying the name of heathen to one who takes the Precepts of Jesus as his principal guide in matters of religious and civic duties; as Roman Catholics bestow the appellation of heretics or infidels on all classes of Protestants; and the Protestants do not spare the title idolater to Roman Catholics; Trinitarians deny the name Christian to Unitarians, while the latter retort by stigmatising the worshippers of the son of man as Pagans who adore a created and dependent being.”
Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833) said by 1833 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: His reply after being called a heathen by John Marshman. Quoted from Goel, S. R. (2016). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Chapter 8 ISBN 9788185990354
“Ram Mohun replied by writing a satire in Bengali, Padari Sisya Sambad, published in 1823, in order to ridicule the doctrine of Trinity. It was an imaginary dialogue between a European missionary and his three Chinese students. After having taught the dogma, the missionary asked his students whether God was one or many. “The first disciple replied that there were three Gods, the second that there were two and the third that there was no God. The teacher rebuked them and demanded an explanation of their answers. The first one said, ‘You said that there are God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. According to my counting that is one plus one plus one, making three.’ The second one said, ‘You told us that there were three Gods and that one of them died long ago in a village in a Western country. So I concluded that there are two Gods, now living.’ The third one said, ‘You have said again and again that God was one and that there is no other God and Christ is the real God. But about 1800 years have passed since the Jews, living near the Arabian Sea, crucified him. What else, do you think I can say, Sir, except that there is no God.’”
Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833) said by 1833 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Padari Sisya Sambad Quoted from Goel, S. R. (2016). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Chapter 8 ISBN 9788185990354
“In a letter written to Lord Amherst, dated 11 December 1823, he praised the British as having ‘extended their benevolent care to this distant land, actuated by a desire to improve its inhabitants’ and obsequiously pleaded against the setting up of a Sanskrit university, which the British had been contemplating, on the grounds that the ‘Sanskrit system of education would be the best calculated to keep this country [India] in darkness’, and that a Sanskrit school ‘can only be expected to load the minds of youth with grammatical niceties and metaphysical distinctions of little or no practicable use.... The pupils will there acquire what was known two thousand years ago, with the addition of vain and empty subtilties since.’”
Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833) said by 1833 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189 Roy’s letter is quoted in full in (Tr…