jects" and it is from the pen of the late Mr. Macnaghten. He was the Principal of the Raja Kumar College at Rajkot. The lectures were first delivered to his pupils — a lecture generally each Sunday; and the lectures were printed after his death. Certainly his lectures helped me a great deal in compressing my lectures. Therefore I must thank first Mr. Mac- naghten and then my friend who recommended to me that book. My readers may ask why I should write this book, when there is a similar one already, written by Mr. Macnaghten. My answer is that he, being a foreigner and of a different religion, could not say all that should be said to Indians on several subjects. Moreover his lectures are solely intended for pupils. I, therefore, thought it necessary to write similar lectures on various subjects from the Hindu point of view. I have intentionally omitted some subjects which
