Note 1406 — Chapter VII · INCARNATE HUMAN GODS

I have borrowed the description of this particular deity from the Rev. Dr. A. M. Fairbairn, who knew him personally (Contemporary Review, June 1899, p. 768). It is melancholy to reflect that in our less liberal land the divine Swami would probably have been consigned to the calm seclusion of a gaol or a madhouse. The difference between a god and a madman or a criminal is often merely a question of latitude and longitude.