Brahmo Samaj, Unitarians and Canada: A forgotten chapter in Indo-Canadian religious history

Abstract

In the afternoon I had to speak at the Philosophical Club of the University [of Toronto] on "Present-day Currents of Religious Thought in India." It was a hard task to present the subject in an intelligible shape in one hour's discourse to a Canadian audience, and so it was a great gratification to me, when at the end of the lecture Dr. Abbott, President of the Club, observed that the discourse gave him a clearer grasp of the conditions of religious thought in India than he had heard from anything he had read or heard before, and Dr. Hume, Professor of Philosophy in the University, suggested in his short speech that an interchange of professors on the principle recently adopted by the German Emperor, might help India and Canada to understand each other better in the future. The same night I had to speak again at the Unitarian Club on "India and the Brahmo Samaj.... 1