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INDIA: ITS HISTORY AND TEEASURES. 217
them ; while the higher classes either cultivated philosophy
and deductive abstractions, or mentally merged away into a
passive self-meditation, looking for final rest in Nirvana.
ISIEN
IN THE CITY.
The first movement, after the
landing in Calcutta, was to
report in person to Gen. Litchfield, the American consul,
whom we found a most genial and sunny-souled gentleman.
His family residence is Grand Rapids, Mich. Gen. Grant
was singularly fortunate in his consular appointments at
Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Melbourne.
Having made the acquaintance of Keshub Chunder Sen
in London, several years since, to inquire about Spiritualism
and the progress of the Brahmo-Somaj in India, I sent him
my card, receiving in reply a most cordial welcome to his
country. Our future interviews, I trust, were mutually
pleasing and profitable. Though singularly non-committal
upon the causes of Spirifual phenomena, he extends the
hand of fellowship to Spiritualism, because a phase of
liberalism.
Knowing something of the Unitarian missionary. Rev. C.
H. A. Dall, through " The Liberal Christian," and being the
bearer of a letter from Rev. Herman Snow of San Francisco,
Cal., I called upon him at No. 24 Mott's Lane, Calcutta,
where he has a flourishing school for boys, with several
native teachers. He has joined, so I was credibly informed,
the Brahmo-Somaj, preaching at present little if any. Unitarianism,
American-bom, had nothing new in the way of
religion to send to the Brahmans of India.
Busily counting money, Mr. Dall was at first not very
communicative, although he warmed up a bit when the
conversation turned upon progress, and the natural relations
existing between radical Unitarianism and true Spiritualism.
Having read of "free love," "fanaticism," and
other rubbish floating upon the spiritual river of life, if not
prejudiced, he certainly lacked a knowledge of the Spiritual