The Hindoos have no History.

Their Ultra-Spiritualism.
But, notwithstanding these many helps, Brahmanism remains a difficult study.

Its source is not in a man, but in a caste.

It is not the religion of a Confucius, a Zoroaster, a Mohammed, but the religion of the Brahmans.
We call it Brahmanism, and it can be traced to no individual as its founder or restorer.

There is no personality about it.[32] It is a vast world of ideas, but wanting the unity which is given by the life of a man, its embodiment and representative.
But what a system?
How large, how difficult to understand! So vast, so complicated, so full of contradictions, so various and changeable, that its very immensity is our refuge! We say, It is impossible to do justice to such a system; therefore do not demand it of us.
India has been a land of mystery from the earliest times.