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      "chunk_data": "136. BRAHMABANDHAB UPADHYAY ON HINDUISM'S CONTRIBUTION TO CHRISTIANITY (1897 A.D.)\nBrahmabandhab Upadhyay has been described as a Hindu sannyasi, a Roman Catholic, and a nationalist. In this early writing he discusses the imperative for making Hindu philosophy the handmaid of Christianity, but he has not yet worked out the theological system for which he was to become so well known.\nFrom Animananda, The Blade, pp. 67-78. Cited in Wm. Theodore de Bary, Sources of Indian Tradition, pp. 734-735.",
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      "chunk_data": "Christianity has again after a long period come in contact with a philosophy which, though it may contain more errors—because the Hindu mind is synthetic and speculative—still unquestionably soars higher than her Western sister.",
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      "chunk_title": "A Choice for Indian Catholics",
      "chunk_data": "Shall we, Catholics of India, (let Hindus make) it their weapon against Christianity or shall we look upon it in the same way as St. Thomas looked upon the Aristotelian system?",
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