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CHAPTER II. WHAT THE VARIOUS FAITHS— BRAHMAN, BUDDHIST, PAR SEE, CONFUCIAN, MOHAMMEDAN, JEW, AND CHRISTIAN —HAD TO SAY CONCERNING GOD. THE Hindu conception of God was presented on the sec- ond day of the Parliament in the paper of M. N. D'vivedi ; and again in an additional paper. Rev. Maurice Phillips argued in another second-day paper the origin of Hindu ideas from a primitive revelation, and Rev. T. E. Slater added a characterization of Hindu theism. Professor J. Estlin Carpenter on the sixth day indicated the presence of monotheism in Vedic utterance ; and on the ninth day Swami Vivekananda expounded at length Hindu ideas of deity and their application in Hindu religion. The Buddhist faith was defended as not atheistic by Profes- sor M. Valentine in a second-day paper. On the third day the doctrine of the Zhikko sect of Shintoism in Japan was set forth by Rev. Reuchi Shibata. Buddha's law of cause and effect was expounded by Shaku Soyen, of Japan, on the eighth day. On the tenth day H. Dharmapala pointed out Buddha's use of the doctrine of evolution, his denial of the common conception of God, and the peculiar sense in which he accepted the deity of Brahmanical pantheism. The Brahmo-Somaj reformed theism of India was expounded by P. C. Mozoomdar on the third day, and again on the twelfth day ; and a further view was given by Mr. Nagarkar on the fifteenth day. The Jain substitute for theism was treated by V. A. Ghandi on the fifteenth day. i The Parsee conviction concerning One God, the theologi- cal speculations which tended to obscure this conviction, and the Parsee construction, on the basis of the pure teaching of T94