fakeerism

Updated: July 4, 2025

This seems to be the plain outcome of the teaching. What is it, mutatis mutandis, but the sermon "cold-blooded" or not, which every righteous soldier has to preach to himself, day by day, as long as his duty commands him to kill his human brothers? Yet the fact is undeniable that Hindoo Mysticism has failed of practical result that it has died down into brutal fakeerism.

Charles Kingsley - Literary and General Lectures and Essays