Then the Brahman was made to give a full account of himself and where he had come from, and when this was found to be true, the bride price was fixed and paid and the marriage took place and the Brahman became a Chamar. CLXV.

The Brahman was a very thin man with his ribs showing through his skin.

"From his high birth," says Menu, "a Brahman is an object of veneration, even to deities."

Like the Pharisees in the time of Jesus, the Brahmans became oppressors of the people.

Why or at what date they left the famous country of the Pharaohs, none can say: but that these white-skinned Brahmans are descendants of such people as the Berbers, who belonged of right to the European races, seems the most plausible theory of their origin yet put forward, and serves as an additional proof of the enormous influence exercised upon posterity by the famous country of the Nile.

The hypocritical Brahmans were not only themselves notorious libertines, but they shrewdly calculated that the simplest way to win the favor and secure control of the Indian populace was by pandering to their sensual appetites and supplying abundant opportunities and excuses for their gratificationmaking these opportunities, in fact, part and parcel of their religious ceremonies.