text:  Hindooism is more fantastic and less pleasingly endeared to us than the paganism of Greece but it is scarcely more lax or licentious; yet if Fortune in its caprices had ordained our Indian subjects to be heathen Greeks with a Whig Governor-General bringing them back in triumph to their homes Lord Palmerston who now in a mingled rant of mythology and methodism talks of "Dii and Jupiter hostis " would himself have penned a paragraph about the restored temple of Mars or Venus and would have held up the scruples of Sir Robert Inglis and Mr