Both Uses of
Hinduism
in
Babbitt
- The second announced that "Mr. P. R., formerly making only eighteen a week in a barber shop, writes to us that since taking our course he is now pulling down $5,000 as an Osteo-vitalic Physician;" and the third that "Miss J. L., recently a wrapper in a store, is now getting Ten Real Dollars a day teaching our Hindu System of Vibratory Breathing and Mental Control."†
Chpt 6Hindu = someone who believes in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)
- When they were not at home, conducting their cautiously radical courtship over sheets of statistics, they were trudging off to lectures by authors and Hindu philosophers and Swedish lieutenants.†
Chpt 18 *
Definition:
the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India
Only Christianity and Islam have more followers than Hinduism.