Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus c4.3

c4.3

The worship of the populace being addressed to different divinities, the followers of the several gods, naturally separated into different associations, and the adorers of BRAHMA', VISHNU, and SIVA, or other phantoms of their faith, became distinct and insulated bodies, in the general aggregate: the conflict of opinion on subjects, on which human reason has never yet agreed, led to similar differences in the philosophical class, and resolved itself into the several *Dersanas*, or schools of philosophy.