INDEX.

Abhidharma-Pitaka, its metaphysics, [473]-476
Abiogenesis, the theory of, [690];
its destined functions, [702]
Abraham, a Hanyf, [195];
story of, [545]-546
Acts, the book of, its value, [604];
review of, [604]-617
Aditi, the godess, [437]
Africa, burial rites in, [430];
divination in, [114];
ordeals in, [119]
Africans, western, sacrifice among, [42];
drink-offerings among, [47]
Agag hewn in pieces, [598]
Age, a golden, traditions of, [538], [539]
Agni, the god, [430]
Agnosticism allied to mysticism, ii. [489]
Ahab, his troubles, [598]
Ahuna-Vairya, the, [503], [504]
Ahura-Mazda, and Zarathustra, [182], [183];
the god of the Parsees, [185];
ancient worship of, [486], [487];
praise of, [487], [488];
rank and character, [489];
address to, [489], [490];
worship of, [490]-492;
fire and water given by, [493];
questioned by Zarathustra, [497]-504;
things which please and things which displease, [497], [498];
prescribes for medical training, [499];
the same as Ormazd, [505];
throughout the god of the Parsees, [508];
creates the world, [535]
Aischylos, his conception of the commercial relation between gods and men, [38]
Akaba, the vow of the first and second, [188]
Ali, sign at his birth, [226]
Amatongo, sacrifice to the, [40]
Amuzulus, sacrifice among the, [47]
sneezing as an omen among, [111]
Amos, his prophecy and history, [61];
conduct towards Amaziah, [573]
Anâgâmin, the, [478], [479] (note)
Analysis, ultimate metaphysical, [464]
Ananda and the Matangi girl, [285];
and Buddha, [134], [136]
Ananias and his wife, story of, [607]
Ancestors, worship of, in Fiji and among the Kafirs, [650], [651];
in Peru, [651].
Angekoks, the, consecration of, [100], [101]
Apocalypse, the, its author, [634];
its style, [634];
compared with the "Pilgrim's Progress," [634];
its visions, [635], [636]
Apollo, worship of, [38];
his sense of gratitude appealed to, [38];
oracle of the Clarian, [127]
Âranyakas, the, [127]
Arhats, the, rank of, [444], [445], [457], [458]
Asceticism, various degrees of, [89];
in Mexico and Peru, [90]-92;
rules of Chinese, [461]
Ashem-Vohû, the, [503], [504]
Asiti, the Rishi, the child and Buddha, [231]
Asoka, the Buddhist king, [450], [451]
Astrology, [118]
Astrologers in Thibet, [144]
Asvagosha, a Buddhist preacher, [122]
Atharva-Veda-Sanhitâ, the, [426], [427]
Atman, [661]
Atmospheric currents, an illustration, [471]
Automatism, apparent puzzle of, resolved, [464]-466
Australia, burial rites in, [77]
Babel, confusion at, [597]
Balaam, treatment of, [597]
Balaki, the Brahman, [446]
Banshee, the Irish, [114]
Baptism, a general religious rite, [58];
in Fantee, [59];
among the Cherokees, Aztecs, &c., [59];
in Mexico, [59];
in Mongolia and Thibet, [61];
among the Parsees, [61];
in the Christian Church, [61], [62];
meaning of the rite, [62], [63]
Barabbas, [215], [216]
Barnabas, and Paul in Antioch, [611];
taken for Zeus, [611];
separation, [613]
Beatitudes, the, [350], [351]
Beauty and Bands, allegory of, [573]
Beliefs, necessary, vindication of, [678]-680;
conditions of, [680];
example, [695], [696]
Benfey, translation of the Sâma-Veda Sanhitâ, [425]
Bhikshu, a defined, [95]
Bhikshus and Bhikshunîs, the, [479]
Bible, the, though above, yet among the sacred books of the world, [369], [370];
forced interpretations of [379], [380];
mostly anonymous, [386];
style of, [389], [390]
Birth, religious rites at, among savage nations, [57], [58];
in Mexico, [59], [60];
in Mongolia and Thibet, [61]
Bodhisattva, [175]-180;
in the womb, [225];
the nature of, [477], [478];
their sacrifice of Nirvâna, [478]
Bogda, thaumaturgic powers of, [122]
Books, sacred, all civilized nations nearly have, [370], [371];
Greeks and Romans without, [370];
list of, [370];
their external marks—recognized inspiration, [371], [372];
supposed merit of reading or repeating them, [372]-375;
subjection to forced interpretations, [375]-383;
internal marks—transcendental-subject-matter, [382]-384;
authoritativeness, [384], [385];
general anonymity, [23]-26;
formlessness, [385]-389;
of the Chinese, [390]-424;
seldom written by the authors of the religion, [413];
of India, [425]-448;
of the Buddhists, [449]-482;
necessity for, [449];
of the Parsees, [482]-509;
of the Moslems, [500]-520;
of the Jews, [518]-603;
of Christianity, [604]-641
Bo-tree, sanctity of, in Ceylon, [127]
Buddha, under, [180], [181]
Brahma, his incest, [600];
not worshiped, [405], [406];
and Brahm, [406], [407]
Brahman, the caste, [183];
the supreme, [405]
Brâhmanas, the, [379], [425], [426];
their character, [444], [445];
ritualistic appendages to the Vedas, [444], [445];
teaching of apologue, [445];
on a universal soul, [445], [446];
on the future of the soul, [447];
on patience, [447];
references to moral conduct, [448]
Bread and wine in the Eucharist, virtue of, [135]
Buddha, Gautama, a thaumaturgist, [122];
the tooth of, [124], [125];
preparation for his last manifestation, [170];
uncertain data to go upon for his life, [171];
when he lived, [172];
early asceticism, [172], [173];
abolishes caste, his theoretic, [217];
his four truths, [173];
the interpretation of these, [173];
his death, [274];
his chief disciples, [274];
spread of his religion, [274];
essential principles, [174], [175];
his blamelessness, [175];
the mythical twelve periods of his life, i. [176];
resolution to be born, [176];
choice of parents, [176];
his birth, [177];
various names of, [177];
adoration by an old Rishi, [178];
qualifies himself for marriage, [178];
enjoyment of domestic life, [179];
departure from home and assumption of the monastic character, [178];
temptations, [178];
his horse Kantaka, [178];
his penances, [180];
his triumph over the devil, [180];
becomes perfect Buddha, [180], [181];
turns the Wheel of the Law, [180];
his reception by kings, [180];
his first conversions, [180];
founds monastic institutions, [180];
enters Nirvâna, [449];
funeral rites, [181];
relics, [181];
aristocratic descent, [221];
gestation of, [224], [225];
signs at his birth, [226];
infant, recognized Simeon-wise by the Rishi Asita, [231];
his temptations in the wilderness, [231];
and the Matangi girl, [285];
compared with Christ, [242]-344;
and the widow's mite, [342], [343];
and the cup of cold water, [344];
as a fisher of men, [344];
exalts humility and poverty, [345];
on divorce, [345], [346];
and Christ, [362]-365;
his sayings collected, [343];
sects in the Church of [449];
extravagant adoration [458];
painting the picture of, [458], [459];
and the two condemned felons, [136]-139;
central figure of Buddhism, [146];
successive manifestations, [476];
worship of, [477];
training of, [476], [478], [481];
disciples of, [480]
Buddha Sakymuni, leaps into the fire, [58]
Buddhas, the, Pratyeka, [478].
Buddhism, ascetic nature and rules of, [93]-95;
fathers of, miracle workers, [121], [122];
goal of, [120];
its sacred canon, [449]-451;
ten commandments of, [467];
boundless charity of, [468];
regard for personal purity, [469]-471;
its four truths, [473];
Buddha its central figure, [476];
gods of, [476];
grades in, [478], [479];
morality of, [480]-483;
five commandments of, [550];
not without a god, ii. [655]-657.
Buddhists, [93]-95;
antecedent to Buddhism, [95];
in India, [96], [97];
of Visvamitra, [96], [97]
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" compared with the Apocalypse, [366], [367]
Caaba, the, [188]-190.
Carlyle, Thomas, forestalled by Confucius, [167];
his "Everlasting No." [186];
on Mahomet, [192]
Cause, the notion of, [484];
the known. See Power.
Ceylon, religious observance in, [51];
festivals in, [53];
marriage in, [75], [76];
burial rites in, [78];
omens in, [112], [113];
divination in, [117];
the Bo-tree, [127].
Child, myth of the dangerous, [227]-230
China, Emperor of, praying for rain, [36];
sacrifice in, [42];
divination in, [117], [118];
in the days of Confucius, [159];
official creed of, [391];
sacred writings of, [39];
authentic history of, remote, [403];
fate of the early Emperors of, as good or bad,
403-406;
its sages and kings, [405]-407;
the "religiones licitæ" of, [413]
Chinese, the, sacred books once nearly destroyed, [391];
their political doctrines, [394];
their ethics, [395], [396];
their loyalty to the heroes as heaven-appointed, [398], [399]
Christ, Jesus, conceived necessity of his death, [47];
his appeal to miracles, [123];
divinity of, not found in the New Testament, [326], [327];
Mahomet's view of, [513], [514];
worship of, [665].
See Jesus.
Christians, the early, communists, [607];
first breach among, [608];
severe discipline of, [614]
Christianity, fundamental conception of, [48], [49];
festivals of, [52];
ascetic spirit of early, [97];
ascetic development of, [98], [99];
powerless over the Jews since the death of Christ, [314], [315];
originally Judaic, [334];
its worship of Christ, [308];
its treatment of the Father and the Spirit, [309], [310]
Christmas, a pagan festival, [53].
Church, the, necessary infallibility of, [152]
Choo He, his criticism of preface to Chinese odes, [380], [381]
Chow, the Duke of, on the favor of heaven, [406]
Ch'un Ts'ëw, the, forced interpretation applied to, [376]-378, [411];
its subject matter and authorship, [411]-413;
opinions of Dr. Legge, [411]-413,
of Mang, [411], [412];
extract, [412];
topics, [412]
Chung Yung, the, authorship of, [394];
its doctrine of the "Mean," [394], [395];
its doctrine of virtue and heaven, [395], [396]
Cicero on immortality, [688].
Circumcision, wide-spread practice of, [63];
among the Jews, [64];
of women among the Suzees and Mandingoes, [73], [74]
Clement, quotation from, on second coming, [338], [339]
Clergy, secular and regular, [100]
Cobbe, Frances Power, [641]
Coming, the second, apostolic doctrine on, [334]-339.
Confucius, neither an ascetic recluse
nor a religious enthusiast, [158], [159];
regard for ritual, [159]-201;
birth and early life, [159];
as a teacher, [159];
subject of his doctrines, [160];
refuses state endowments, [160];
chief magistrate of Loo, [160];
resignation [160];
death, [161];
character, [162];
wanting in the bold originality of the other reformers of religion, [162];
charge of insincerity, [162];
his purity, [163];
his courteous manners, [164];
formal deportment, [165];
relations with his disciples, [165];
four virtues of which he was master, [166];
sense of a mission, [166], [167];
pain at being misunderstood, [167];
had no theological beliefs, [167];
lays all stress upon terrestrial virtues, [168];
had an esoteric doctrine, [169];
subjects on which he did not talk, [170];
minds not things too high for him, but is silent, [170];
summary of moral duties, [171];
moral perfection, [171];
doctrine of reciprocity, [172];
some of his sayings, [172], [173];
Carlylean utterances, [173];
Tsge-Kung's admiration for him, [173];
interview with and opinion of Laò-tsé, [174], [175];
ante-natal signs, [225];
his teachings similar to Christ's, [342];
doctrine of recompense, [354]-357;
idea of perfect virtue, [361];
and Christ, [362]-365;
on unseen spiritual beings, [395], [396];
left writings, [414]
Confucianism the official creed in China, [391]
Consciousness, its rise unaccounted for by material evolution, [705];
necessarily of spiritual evolution, [706], [707];
not by creation, nor from nothing, [707]
Consecration, power of, among the Mongolians, [86];
among the Catholics, [86];
differs from sacrifice, [86];
permanence of, [87]
Consecrated objects in Sierra Leone, [84];
among the Tartars, [84];
in Ceylon, [86];
value of, [86]
Cornelius, conversion of, [328], [610]
Creation of the universe, Hebrew account of [531]-533;
account, of the Quichés, [533],
of the Mixtecs, [533], [534],
of the Buddhists, [534],
of the Parsees, [534], [535];
of the Rig-Veda, [535], [536];
of animals and man, Hebrew account, [536]-538,
Fijian account, [538];
impossible, [707]
Creeds, the error of, [709], [710]
Cylinders, rotary, in Thibet, with sacred texts, [373], [374]
Dakhmas, the, [79], [80]
Daniel, the book of, [586], [587];
the prophet, [587], [588], [590]
Darwinism, an epoch, [705]
Death, rites at, in New South Wales, [77];
in Western Africa, [77], [78];
in Polynesia, [77];
in Mexico, [78];
in Ceylon, [77];
in Thibet, [88];
among Christians, [89], [90]
Death-watch, the, in Scotland, [114]
Debt a disqualification in Buddhism, [460]
Delphi, oracle at, [126]
Deluge, the, Hebrew account of, [541], [542];
other traditions, [243], [244];
Indian tradition, [244], [245];
the judgment by, [597]
Demoniac possession in the days of Christ, [210], [211];
in Judea, Abyssinia, Polynesia, and Ceylon, [245], [246]
Design, argument from, [711], [712]
Destruction, impossible, [706]
Devadatta, [481]
Devas, the worship of, renounced by the Parsees, [490]
Didron, M., on the Scriptural proof of the Trinity, [379];
on mediæval representations of the Father and the Son in the Trinity, [665], [666]
Disciples, the, rebuked by Christ for not casting out a devil, [244];
and Judaism, [328]-341, [345]
Disease, moral theory of, [141]
Disease-makers in Tanna, [140]
Divination a profession, [115];
in South Africa, [115];
from sticks and bones, [115], [116];
by familiar spirits, [116], [117];
among the American Indians, [117], [118];
among the Ostiacks, [118];
in China, [118], [119];
in Ceylon, [119];
by the stars, [120]
Diviners, methods of, in Sierra Leone, [143];
in Mexico, [143];
among the Jews, [145]
Divorce, Christ's doctrine of, [304];
Paul's doctrine of, [632]
Dogs, Parsee respect for, [409], [500]
Drake, Sir Francis, and his men, divine honors paid to, [256], [257]
Dreams, presumed supernatural origin of, [106];
theory of, [107];
interpretation of, [107];
Jewish ceremony against bad, [107], [108];
in Scripture, [108], [109];
in Homer, [110];
horn and ivory gates of, [110]
Dreams, Joseph's, as a main proof of the incarnation, [108]
Dress, Buddhist rule for nuns, [467]
Duty, Chinese definition of, [395]
Easter, [55]
Ebionite, the, a sect apart, [333];
their fate, [334]
Ecclesiastes, the work of a cynic, [568];
account of, [569]
Eddas, the Norse, [388]
Ego, consciousness of the, [700]
Elisha, an Amazulu, [556]
Elohim, the, [663], [664]
Epistles, the, of the New Testament, general burden of, [618], [619]
Equilibrium of soul, Chinese definition of, [395]
Essenes, the, [96]
Essence, the ultimate, of Brahminism, [661], [662]
Evil, origin of, Hebrew account of; [537], [538];
Buddhist account, [539], [540]
Evolution theory, its dark spot, [705];
its great triumph, [706]
Existence the course of evil, [474], [475];
at bottom, what? [702]
Exorcism among the Jews, [212];
among the disciples of Christ, [213]
Experience as a test of truth, [678], [679]
Ezekiel the prophet and his prophecies, [582], [584]
Faith and belief distinguished, [23];
and works, Scripture controversy on, [618], [619];
and belief, relations of, [709]-711
Fasting as a religious rite, [55]
Festivals, idea of, [52];
natural seasons of, [52];
in Guinea, China, &c., [53];
New Year's day in China, [53];
Christmas, [54];
among the Jews, [55];
three kinds of, [54], [55];
of Peruvians, [56]
Fetish, idea of a, [132];
power to
charm, [133],
priests as healers, [141]
Fire a sacred symbol, [56];
invocation of, [489];
Parsee worship, [494], [495]
Force, persistence of, [672]-677;
Herbert Spencer on, [677], [705];
the notion of, [717]
Frashaostra, [183], [184]
Fravashis, the, [493]
Gadarene demoniac, the, i. [243]
Gâthâ, the fifth, i. [182];
account of the first, ii. [487], [488];
the second, ii. [485], [486];
third, ii. [486], [487];
fourth and fifth, ii. [487], [488]
Gâthâs, the five, antiquity of, ii. [484];
account of, ii. [485]-490
Gentleness, Laò-tsé on, ii. [419]
Ghost, the Holy, the Christian art, ii. [666], [667];
generally unworshiped, [668]
God, personality of, not an essential element in religious belief, [719];
loss of personality of, a gain, [720]
God of Israel, the, his imperious attitude, [590];
arbitrary conduct towards man in Paradise, [591], [592];
his command to Abraham, [592];
a Bramanical contrast, [592];
his favoritism for Abel, [593],
for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, [594];
partizanship in delivering the Israelites from Egypt, [594],
and giving them Canaan, [594];
exacting and "jealous," [594];
anger and the calf idolaters, [595];
treatment of the Israelites in the wilderness, [594], [595];
capriciousness, [595], [596],
in the punishment by deluge, [596],
towards the builders of Babel, [596];
in regard to Balaam, ii. [596],
Nadab and Abihu, ii. [597],
the man that touched the ark, ii. [597],
his rejection of Saul, ii. [598];
preference for Samuel, [598];
treatment of Ahab, ii. [598];
his treatment of alien nations, [599];
his legislation, [600],
in regard to the Sabbath, [600],
idolatry, [600],
filial impiety, [600];
anthropomorphic conceptions of, [602], [603];
better elements in the ideal, [603], [604]
God of Christendom, the, differs from the God of Israel, [636];
his worst action, [637];
the change accounted for, [637], [638];
no longer the God of a race, [638];
one blot on his character, makes punishment eternal, [638], [639];
step toward a milder view, Purgatory, [640];
recent still milder conceptions, [641]
God the Father in mediæval art, [665], [666]
God, belief in, as Father, [682];
as Son, [682], [683]; as Spirit, [683]
God among the Fijians, [650], [651];
the Negroes, [653], [654];
the Greenlanders, [654];
original Americans, [654], [655];
the great religions of the world, [655];
of Buddhism, and [653]-657;
interior superior, [657]
God, the highest, recognized amidst inferior, worshiped gods, in Guinea, [657];
among the Kafirs, [657];
in Sierra Leone, [658];
in Dahomey, [658];
among the Ashantees, [658], [659];
in Mexico and Peru, [659];
in Sabaeism, [659];
among the Hindus, [659]-664;
in Judaism, [664], [665];
in Christianity, [664]-666;
various explanations of the idea of, [669],
of common realism, [670], [698],
of metaphysical realism, [671], [672], [698];
comparative estimate of these theories, [672], [673];
of moderate idealism, [673], [676], [698];
philosophical conclusion, [476], [477]
Gods appealed to as men, [39], [40]
Goethe, quotation, [415]
Gopa, wife of Buddha, [177]-179
Gospels, the, [199];
criticism of the narratives, [199]-204;
discrepancies in regard to the genealogies, [218]-220;
accounts of Christ's birth, [221], [222];
discrepancies regarding Christ's habitation, [239];
regarding the calling of his first disciples, [230], [231];
discrepancies about the sermon on the Mount, [243];
hopelessness of chronology, [243];
account of Christ's entry into Jerusalem, [253];
account of the fig-tree, [254];
accounts of Christ's annointing, [225];
accounts of Christ's betrayal by Judas, [240], [241];
accounts of Christ's last passover, [258], [259];
account of Christ's passion, [260], [261];
account of Christ's arrest, [261], [262],
of Jesus before the Sanhedrim, [262], [263],
of Jesus before Pilate, [263]-265,
of the crucifixion, [265]-267,
of the resurrection, [269]-275;
account of Christ's lineage and birthplace, [295]-298
Greece, gods of, [386]
Groves, sacred, Africa and the South seas, [127]
Habakkuk, the prophet, [579]
Haggai, his prophecy, [585]
Hanyfites, [550]
Haoma, the plant, [46], [47]
Harischandra, legend of, [246]-249
Harmony, Chinese spiritual, [395]
Haug, Dr, on the ages of the Vedas, [428], [429];
his translation of the Gâthâs, [482]
Hea, decrees against the King of, [404], [405]
Heaven and hell, Mahometan, [516], [517]
Heaven, Chinese definition of, ii. [396]
Hebrews, the, its teachings, as contrasted with that of James, [618]-620
Hegira, the, [189]
Here's conception of Hephaistos, [223]
Hermits, Indian, [195]
Herod and the birth of Christ, [227]-229
Herod the Tetrarch, fate of, [611]
Heu Hing, political economy of, [400]
Hezekiah, and Isaiah, [550];
divine favor to, [557];
inglorious reign of, [558]
Hilkiah, and his associates, and Josiah, [523]-525
Hindus, ritual among the, [51];
festivals among the, [52]-54
Hodgson, his discovery in Nepaul, [451]
Homa, the god, [506]-508
Homa-Yasht, the, [506]
Homer, poems of, [388], [389]
Horace, quotation, [418]
Hosea, the prophet, [573]
How-tseih, miraculous birth of, [224]
Huran, prayer of a, [33]
Hymns, Vedic, of cursing, [565], [566]
Hysteria in Judea in the days of Christ, [210], [211]
Ibos, sacrifice among the, [42]
Idealism, its forms, [673];
moderate,
as a solution, [677]-676;
extreme, [676]
Idolatry, the crime of, among the Jews, [600]
Immortality of the soul, not an article in either the Buddhist or Jewish creed, [687];
the Greek and Roman philosophers on, [687], [688]
Incas, the worship of, by images, [651]
Indian, Nootka, prayer of, [32]
Indra, his praises, [433];
his soma-drinking, [433];
the Indian Zeus, [433]
Infallibility of the clergy, [153]
Inspiration of sacred books, [311], [372];
among the Chinese, [380], [381]
Instruction, Chinese definition of, [305]
Interpretation, forced, of sacred books, [375]-383
Isaac, the sacrifice of, an Indian parallel to, [545]-548
Isaiah quoted to prove Messiahship of Christ, [297]-299;
[53]d as a prophecy of Christ, [299];
his rank as a prophet, [517];
dates of his prophecies, [518];
earliest stratum of his prophecies, [518];
contrast with Joel, [519];
on the Jerusalem ladies, [519];
second part, [519];
accepts the divine call, [520];
third part, [520];
fourth part, [520], [521];
fifth, sixth, and seventh parts, [521];
vision of the future, [521]
Jacob, his bargain with Jehovah, [39];
his conduct to Esau, [594]
Jahveh, the holy name, [664]
James, the Epistle of, its teaching contrasted with that of the Hebrews, [619], [620]
Jehovah, his praises in the Psalms, [38];
and Adonia, [663], [664]
Jeremiah, the prophet, [579];
his call [579], [580];
denunciatory prophecies, ii. [580], [581];
and Pashur, [581];
analysis of his prophecies, ii. [581], [582];
lamentations of, [583]
Jesus Christ, the historical (see Christ), difficulties in regard to materials for his life, [199];
compared with the mythical, and the ideal, [200];
his sayings credibly reported, [201];
criticism of his doings, [202];
further tests applied, [202]-204;
his parents and family, [204]-206;
his mother, [205];
birth at Nazareth, [206];
originally a carpenter, [207];
influence of John the Baptist, [206], [207];
comes forth a Messiah, [207];
boldly asserts his claim, [207];
his early disciples, the three most intimate, [207], [208];
female followers, [209];
his own family and neighbors unfriendly to his mission, [208], [209];
his public teaching, [209];
state of Judea at the time, [209], [210];
casts out devils, [210], [211];
his sermons and parables, [212];
authority as a teacher, [212], [213];
offends the Jews by forgiving sin, [213];
disregard of Sabbatical customs, [213];
claiming Messiahship, [213], [214];
abusing his enemies, [214];
violent conduct in the Temple, [214];
his betrayal and apprehension, [214];
accusation and trial, [215], [216];
the witnesses and his defense, [215], [216];
his condemnation, [216];
before Pilate, [216];
crucifixion, [216];
interment, [216]
Jesus, of the Gospels, indifference to alleged lineage and birthplace, [294];
believed to be of Nazareth, [296];
misapplies a prophecy to himself, [298], [299];
and the Jewish Sabbath, [301], [302];
offense taken at the company he kept and free living, [302];
his neglect of the tradition of the elders, [303];
views of divorce, [304];
on paying tribute, [304], [305];
and the Sadducees in regard to the future state, [305]-307;
two chief commandments, [307];
on the denunciation of the Scribes, [408], [409];
provokes opposition, [409];
expulsion of the money-changers, [409], [410];
defense of his conduct, [410], [411];
gives offense to the Sanhedrim, [312];
before the Sanhedrim, [312];
before Pilate, [313];
his faith in his Messiahship, [316];
conscious of being son of God, [316], [317];
comparative modesty of the claim, [317];
asserted inferiority to the Father, [318];
his relation to the law, [319], [320];
his mission confined to the Jews, [320], [321];
his idea of his mission his one thought, [321]-326;
his warning to his disciples to be ready, [321]-323;
his idea of his kingdom, [323];
his one qualification for admission, [324];
his kingdom to be on earth, [325];
Peter's confession of, [327];
doctrine of his divinity not found in the New Testament, [327];
not thought to have a design of subverting the Mosaic law, [328];
modern laudation of, [339];
materials for criticism, [339], [340];
his fondness for contrasts, [340], [341];
his resemblance to Laò-tsé, [344];
aversion to wealth and wealthy men, [446], [447];
his doctrine in regard to invitations to feasts, [448];
parable of the laborers in in the vineyard, [449];
his assertion of eternal punishment, [350];
his false estimate of the power of prayer, [349];
his sermon on the Mount, [450]-462;
his doctrine of murder, adultery, and perjury, [451], [452];
of resisting evil by doing good, [452], [453];
his model prayer, [356], [358];
on the superiority of heavenly to temporal interests, [358]-461;
founder of scientific ethics, [360];
as a prophet, compared with Buddha and Confucius, [362]-364;
compared with Socrates, [464], [465];
his transcendent moral grandeur, [366];
as a man of sorrows, [366]-368
Jesus Christ, Mahomet's view of, [513], [514]
Jesus, the ideal, of St. John, peculiarities of the narrative, [277]-288;
improbabilities, [288];
raising Lazarus, [288]-291;
at the marriage feast, [279], [280];
heals by a word, [282];
at the pool of Bethesda, [282];
interviews with Nathaniel, &c., [280], [281], [283];
symbolic teachings, [281]-283;
last discourse to his disciples, [283];
as the Logos, [283], [284];
Oneness with God, as his father, [284];
last days and moments, [286], [287]
Jesus, the mythical, the accounts of, [216], [217];
variety of these, [217];
the genealogies, [217]-221;
conception and nativity, [221]-223;
mythological parallels, [223]-226;
mediæval painting of, in the womb, [225];
recognition by the shepherds, [226], [227];
by the Magi, [227];
and Herod, [227], [228];
a dangerous child, [228]-230;
circumcision, [230];
recognized by Simeon, [231];
by Anna, [231];
in the Temple, [232]-233;
called a Nazarene, [234];
his baptism, [234], [236];
message from John the Baptist, [236];
temptation, [237];
comes to Capernaum, [238];
reasons for leaving Nazareth [238], [239];
reception in Nazareth as a preacher, [239];
has an abode, [239];
no ascetic, [240];
in comfortable circumstances, [240];
collects followers, [240], [241];
calls Peter, [241];
calls Matthew, [241];
appoints twelve, [241];
his four select, [241], [242];
works miracles, [242];
sermon on the Mount, [242], [243];
heals the Gadarene demoniac, [243];
expels a devil, and rebukes his disciples for their want of faith, [244];
heals the Syrophenician damsel, [244], [245];
heals a leper, [246];
a paralytic, [246];
raises Jarius' daughter, [246], [248];
heals a woman with an issue of blood, [248];
the centurion's servant, [248], [249];
heals a deaf mute, [250];
heals a blind man, [250],
ten lepers, [250];
raises the widow's son, [250];
miraculously feeds a multitude, [250];
walks on the water, [251];
stills the storm, [251];
his transfiguration, [251], [252];
foretells his crucifixion and resurrection, [253];
triumphal entry into Jerusalem, [253], [254];
blasts the fig-tree, [254];
purges the temple, [254];
last anointing, [254];
betrayal by Judas, [257];
keeps his last passover, [258];
institutes the supper, [259];
washes his disciples' feet, [260];
in Gethsemane, [260];
arrest, [261];
before the Sanhedrim, [261], [262];
before Pilate, [262]-265;
before Herod, [264];
mockery, [265];
crucifixion, [265]-267;
last words, [267];
wonders accompanying his death, [267];
his burial, [268], [269];
resurrection, [269]-273;
ascension, [275]
Jews, sacrifices among the, [42]-44;
prayers, [50];
festivals of, [52], [53];
passover among, [55];
rite of circumcision among, [64];
historical result of their rejection of Christ, [287], [288];
unjust treatment, [289];
consideration in extenuation, [289];
their provocations, [290], [291];
credulity
of skepticism in regard to Messianic pretensions, [292];
justification of their Messianic expectations, [293]-294;
excusable ignorance as to Christ's lineage, [295], [296];
and their own prophecies, [296]-299;
treatment of Christ's miracles, [299];
their esteem for the Sabbath law, [300], [301];
their offense at Christ for his disregard of ceremonial observance, [300]-303;
their right to interrogate Christ, [303];
question to Jesus about tribute, [304], [305];
just offense, as monotheists, at Christ, [313];
and Christianity, [314]-316;
justification of their rejection of Christ, [315];
identified with their Bible, [162];
settlement in Judea, [162], [163];
under kings, [163];
in captivity, [163];
epoch in their history, [163];
their national god, [164]-166;
early creed not monotheistic, [166];
idolatry, [167];
not Jehovistic, only the priests, [167], [169];
effects of the captivity, [170]-172;
under the Maccabees, [173];
their pride and intolerance, [133], [173];
under the Asmoneans and the Herods, [173];
under the Romans, [174];
in Christendom, [175];
their toughness, [175].
Job, story of the book of, [563], [564]
"Jocelyn," Lamartine's, [102], [103]
Joel, his prophecy, [571];
Isaiah, [575]
John, Baptist, asceticism of, [96], [206], [207];
baptizes Christ, [235];
message from prison to Christ, [336];
Christ's estimate of, [336]
John, Gospel of, silence about miraculous conception, [221];
account of Christ's baptism, [235];
account of the crucifixion, [268];
on Christ's Divinity, [327], [328];
its value in evidence, [328]
John, the apostle, the beloved disciple, [281];
his Gospel, its fondness for symbolic speech, [281], [282];
for obscure theological questions, [383], [384];
doctrine of the Logos, [384], [385];
his Gospel as regards Christ's birthplace and lineage, [294], [295]
John, the three epistles of, [620], [621]
Jonah, book and story of, [586], [587]
Jongleurs, the, in New France, installation of, [601]
Jordan, crossing the, an Indian parallel, [553]
Joseph, the father of Jesus, [204], [218], [221], [229], [233]
Josiah, Jehovistic coup d'état under, [523], [525]
Judas, his betrayal of Jesus, [214];
slander against, [255];
betrays Christ, [263];
myth of his unhappy end, [257], [258];
charged with his intended crime at the last supper, [258], [259];
arrest of Christ, [261], [263]
Judaism, antagonism to asceticism, [96];
of John the Baptist, [97];
tendency of Christianity to encourage, [97];
idea of, [98];
Protestant disregard of, [99];
and Christianity, [328];
and the apostle Paul, [330], [331];
and the early Church, [334]
Kafirs, prayer of, [34];
sacrifice among the, [42], [43];
sneezing an omen among, [110];
other omens among, [112]
Kama, burning of, [55];
invoked to curse, [566]
Kantaka, horse of Buddha, [179]
Karma, the, of Buddhist ethics, [481]
Kava-Vistaspa, [183], [184]
Keightley, data from, on saint worship in England, [668]
Khadija, the first wife of Mahomet, [187];
her relations with the prophet, [187];
her death, [180]
Khorda-Avesta, the, [502]-509;
its use, [502];
subject-matter and date, [503]
King, the meaning of the term, [391];
the five, [391], [392]
Kingdom of heaven, Christ's idea of, [321]-324;
Paul's, [335];
Peter's [336]
Koran, style of, [194], [378]-389;
the staple of, [198];
the single authorship and unity of, [510];
apology for its style, [510];
translations, [510];
origin and formation of, [510];
original copy, [511];
arrangement, [511];
themes, [511], [512];
specimens, [512];
its paradise, [517];
its hell, [517]
Korosi, his discovery, [451]
Kosti, investure with the, [74]
Kronos, his dread of his children, [229]
Kunâla, legend of, [481]
Kyros, a dangerous child, [230]
Lady, a pious, [460]
Laò-tsé, probable date of birth, [168];
admonition to Confucius, [168];
account of himself, [168];
resembled Plato's philosopher, [169];
his style similar to Christ's, [340];
the Christianity of, [353];
left writings, [413];
description of Tao, [414];
conception of goodness, [418];
on gentleness, [419];
against luxury, [419];
has three cardinal virtues, [420];
mysticism, [420];
conception of God, [421], [422];
his character and teaching, [422]
Lazarus, story of, peculiar to John's Gospel, [255];
his resurrection, [347], [348]
Lazarus and Dives, [344], [347], [350]
Legge, Dr. James, his Chinese classics, [390];
his opinion of the authorship of Ch'un' Tsew, [59]
Legislation, Hebrew, [600]-603
Libations in sacrifice, [47];
in Tartary, Samoa, Thibet, &c., [47]
Life, vital forces, Indian apologue, [445], [446]
Linga, the, worship of, [54]
Lucretius on immortality, [688]
Luke, his genealogy of Jesus, [218]-221;
account of miraculous conception and birth, [222], [223];
account of the shepherds, [226], [227];
account of Christ's infancy, [230];
discrepancies with Matthew, [233]-236;
his free spirit, [232];
account of the call of Peter, [241];
version of the sermon on the Mount, [243];
account of lunatic boy, [244];
his partiality for angels, [252];
accompanies Paul, [257]
Lun Yu, the, date of, [392];
subject matter, [392];
its Boswellian minuteness of detail, [392]
Luxury, Laò-tsé on, [419]
Magi and the birth of Christ, [228]-230
Mahomet, pretensions of, to the supernatural, [122];
the last of the great prophets, [186];
his religion self-derived, [187];
his parents and birth, [187];
his original social position, [187];
marries Khadija, [187];
his first revelation, [187];
passes through the period of the "Everlasting No." [187];
Gabriel his guardian angel, [187];
first disciples,
187;
his doctrines provoke persecution, [187];
his momentary relapse into idolatry and repentance, [188];
persecution of his family, [188];
binds by a vow pilgrims from Medina, [188];
his flight to Medina, [189];
success there, [189];
war with Mecca, [189];
truce with the Meccans, [190];
summons crowned heads to submit to his religion, [190];
first pilgrimage to Mecca, [190];
enters Mecca in triumph, [191];
proclamation to the inhabitants, [192];
final triumph and death, [191];
his character an open question, [192];
his sincerity, [193]-195;
sense of inspiration, [193];
time-serving withal, [193];
inspired poetic style, [193];
his predecessors, [195];
his sources of information, [195];
takes to the sword, [195];
conduct to the Jews, [195], [196];
his weak point, [196], [197];
his harem, [197];
his marriages, [198];
his jealousy, [198];
triumph of his religion, [199], [200];
aristocratic descent, [221];
ante-natal intimations of his greatness, [226];
the infant recognized by his grandfather, [231];
his awe under the new revelation, [512];
his stock-in-trade, [513];
view of his prophetic function, [513];
prophets acknowledged by, [514];
views of Christ, [514], [515];
of himself, [516], [517];
address of God to, [516]
Malachi on sacrifices to God, [44];
prophecies of, [586], [587]
Man, the wise and the fool, chapter from, [468]
Mang, on high-mindedness, his teaching similar to Christ's, [341];
a disciple of Confucius, [396];
his works, [396], [397];
late introduction to the canon, [397], [398];
his democratic philosophy, [398];
his view how heaven makes known its will, [399], [400];
notions of good government, [399], [400];
a political economist, [401];
his regard for propriety, [401], [402];
his faith in human nature, [402], [403];
his moral tone, [403]
Manu, code of, on legal and illegal forms of marriage, [76], [77];
the typical ancestors of men, [447];
and the deluge, [543], [544]
Mark, Gospel of, its credibility, [203];
omits miraculous conception, [221];
account of Christ's baptism, [235];
reference to Christ's temptation, [237]
Marriage, rites at, peculiar to civilized nations, [75];
in Ceylon, [75];
in Thibet, [76];
according to the code of Manu, [76];
among Parsees, Jews, and Christians, [77];
with strangers, among the Jews, [600]
Marriage-tie, the, Christ on, [345]
Maruts, the, prayer to, [35], [38];
their nature, [434]
Mary, the mother of Jesus, [204], [205], [218], [221]-223, [233], [234];
at the cross, [267]
Masses for the dead, [80]
Materialism, unphilosophic, [694]
Matthew, his genealogy of Jesus, [218]-221;
account of miraculous conception, and birth, [221], [222];
account of the Magi, [227];
reticence about infancy of Christ, [230];
discrepancies with Luke, [233]-236;
call of, [241];
version of sermon on the Mount, [243];
his misappropriation of prophecy, [297], [298]
Maya Devi, her dream, [176];
her pregnancy, [176];
delivery of a son, [177];
death thereafter, [177]
Maya, her gestation-time, [225]
Mean, the, Chinese doctrine of, [394], [395]
Mencius. See Mang
Messiah, the, the term, [292], [293];
Jewish ideas of, [292], [293];
these ideas not responded to by Christ, [293];
presumptuous Christian interpretations, [293], [294];
predictions as to lineage and birth, [294]-296;
as son of David, [295];
predictions of his birth from a virgin, [297], [298];
in [53]d of Isaiah, [279]
Metaphysics, Buddhist, [473], [474]
Mexico, human and other sacrifices in, [41], [42], [43];
worship in, [51];
burial rites in, [78];
monasticism in, [91], [93]
Mexican festival for rain, [35]
Micah, the prophecy of, [578]
Mill, J. S., a metaphysical realist, [676]
Mind, not resolvable in matter, or physical cause, [689]-692
Miracles as credentials of the divine, [120], [121];
of Buddhism, [121];
among the Mongols, [122];
among the Moslems, [122];
of Christianity, [123];
in the early Church, [123], [124];
of the Mormons, [124], [125];
insufficiency of the evidence in the case of Christ, [299], [300]
Mite, the widow's, [342], [343]
Mithra, the god, [467], [471], [493]
Mitra, [435]
Moments, four sacred, [57]
Monasticism in Mexico and Peru, [89], [92];
among the Buddhists, [93]-95;
in Siam, [96];
in Nepaul, [97];
in Christianity, [104]
Monk, Buddhist, condemned, to monkeyhood, [556]
Monotheism, fate of, [312]
Monteçuma and human sacrifice, [41]
Mormons, the, claim to supernatural gifts, [124], [125]
Moses, a dangerous Child, [229];
address of God to, [515];
the ten commandments of, [549], [550];
commandments of the tables of stone given to, [595], [596];
mercifulness, [239];
divine manifestations to, [602]
Moslems, prayer among the, [51]
Muir, Dr., Sanskrit texts, [425]
Müller, Max, translator of Rig-Veda-Sanhitâ, [425];
account, of the Vedas, [427], [428];
on the supreme god of the Hindus, [662], [663]
Myths, three classes of, about Jesus, [217];
instance of first order, [221], [222], [224];
of the dangerous child, [227];
Perseus's birth, [229];
of Oidipous, [229];
of Christ's baptism, [352];
illustration of the growth of, [234]
Nagardjuna, thaumaturgic powers of, [122]
Nahum, the prophet, and his prophecy, [578]
Nathaniel, [280]-285
Nature, Chinese definition of, [395]
Nausikaa, a Chinese, [409]
Nazareth, Christ's reputed birthplace, [296]
Nazarites, the, [96]
Neander on the Judaism of the early Church, [333], [334]
Newman, Francis W., [640]
Nicodemus, [267], [280], [282], [283], [285]
Nidânas, the twelve, [473]-475
Nirvâna, theory of, [474], [475];
sacrifice of, [478]
Obadiah, prophecy of, [577]
Objects, holy, in Peru, [133];
trees as, [134];
animals as, [134];
serpents as, [134];
images as, [135]
Odes, Chinese, traditional interpretation of, [379]-381
Offerings, religious, in Sierra Leone, [84];
in Tartary, [85]
Oidipous, [229]
Omar, his conversion to Mahometanism, [188]
Omens, divine, [106];
in dreams, [106];
in sneezing, [109]-110;
interpretation of, [111];
from flight of eagles, [111];
from a horse turning back, [111];
from bleating of a sheep, [111];
among the Kafirs and Chinese, [112];
in Ceylon, [112], [113];
in the heavens, [113];
in Tacitus, [113], [114];
in Ireland and Scotland, [114];
at birth of great men, [114], [115]
Ophites, the, their worship, [134]
Ordeals, as a moral test, [119];
in Western Africa, [119];
among the Hebrews, [120];
among the Negroes, [120];
among the Ostiacks, [121]
Orders, holy, in the Church of England, [102], [103];
Buddhist monastic rules, [104]-106
Ormazd. See Ahura-Mazda
Pachacamac, or the universal soul, [658]
Palestine, state of, in days of Christ, [209], [210]
Parker, Theodore, [641]
Parsees, sacrifices among the, [44];
prayers, [50];
festivals of, [53];
baptism among, [61], [62];
burial rites, [78], [80]
Parseeism, rise of, [484];
reformers' hymn, [483];
religious zeal of, [486];
objects of worship, [489];
fire-worship, [490], [491];
confession of faith, [490], [491];
new divinities, [491], [493];
respect for dogs, [499], [500];
later respect for purity, [500], [501];
times of, [507], [508];
eight commandments of, [550], [551]
Passover, the Jewish, [55]
Patets, the Parsees, [506], [507]
Patria Potestas, the, in Judea and Rome, [600], [601]
Paul, his independence and concession to Jewish prejudices, [330], [331];
his views of the Mosaic law, [332], [333];
idea of the coming of Christ, [334], [335];
as a persecutor, [608];
accounts of his conversion, [608]-610;
his consecration, [611];
at Paphos, [611];
in Antioch, [611];
at Lystra, taken for Hermes, [611];
for a god, [611];
parallel in the case of Sir Francis Drake, [612], [613];
stoned, [614];
parts with Barnabas, [614];
chooses Silas, [614];
at Phillippi, [614];
at Athens, [614];
at Corinth, [614];
at Ephesus, [614], [615];
at Troas, [616];
at Jerusalem, [616], [617];
appeal to Cæsar, [616];
in Rome, [617];
his equal apostleship, [621], [622];
his epistles, their style and spirit, [623];
his reasoning powers, [623], [624];
his exclusive regard for essential principles, [623], [624];
denunciation of cohabitation with a stepmother, [626];
against prostitution, [626];
views on matrimony, [628], [629], [630], [632];
rules affecting widows, [629];
preference for celibacy, [630];
allows bishops and deacons to marry, [630];
on divorce, [632];
on the resurrection of the dead, [632]-634;
on brotherly love, [634];
other maxims, [634]
Perseus, myth of his birth, [229]
Persia, power of, [482]
Peru, monasticism in, [91], [92]
Peruvians, festivals of, [55];
baptism among, [58]
Peter, call of, [240];
his denial of Christ, [262];
his confession, [327];
his vision, [328];
and Judaism, [329], [330];
idea of kingdom of heaven, [335], [336];
conduct towards Ananias and Sapphira, [606], [607];
deliverance by an angel, [608];
scandal caused by, [610];
his epistles, [619]
Pharisee, the, and publican, [344]
Pharisees, and Christ, [300], [305];
denounced by Christ, [308], [309]
Phinehas and the Midianitish woman, [597]
Pilate, as governor of Judea, [262], [263];
treatment of Christ, [263], [265];
Christ before, [313]
"Pilgrim's Progress," [635], [636]. See Bunyan
Places, holy, [82], [83];
special haunts
of the divine, [126], [127];
in Africa and South Seas, [127];
in Ceylon, (the Bo-tree), [127];
graves as, [127], [128];
in history, [128];
oracles, [128];
by consecration—the temple, [128], [129];
holy of holies, [130]
Plato, his description of a philosopher in his "Theætetus," [170]
Polynesia, burial rites in, [78]
Positivism, weak point in, [157]
Pourutschista, St., [183], [184]
Power, the Unknown, not a suggestion of sense, [696], or of reason, [696], [697], but of religious sentiment, [697], [698];
idea of, unaccounted for by Realism, common and metaphysical, [698];
moderate and extreme Idealism, [698];
neither one nor many, but all, [699], [700];
sense of, an intuition, [700], [701];
of kin to mind, as in man, [701], [702];
includes consciousness, [702];
includes our nature, [702];
the universal solvent, [703], [704];
fountain of all reservoirs of force, [705];
allows nothing to be a law to itself, [705];
our knowledge of, no riddle, [707];
illustrations, [708]-712;
the denial of, an affirmation, [717];
faith in, the foundation of religious faith, [718];
answer to charge of vagueness, [719], [720];
not a father, not a judge, [720];
harmony of the idea of, with deep religious feeling, [721]
Praise conjoined with prayer, [32]-37;
part of worship, [37], [38];
Christian and heathen compared, [38]
Prajapati, [535]
Prayer, its influence, [32];
its concomitant, praise, [32];
its primitive form and purpose, [33];
specimens of primitive, [33];
of Indians, preparing for war, [33];
of a Huron, [33];
of Kafirs, [34];
of Caribbean Islanders, [34];
of the Samoans, [34];
Polynesian, [34];
Vedic, [35]-37;
Solomon's, [35];
special, [35];
efficacy, [35];
for rain and other physical benefits, [36];
for Thebes, [38];
specimens of, [38]-40;
and sacrifice, [39];
forms of, [50];
Christ's doctrine of, [350];
the Lord's, [356]-358
Pre-Adamites, Buddhist, [460]
Priests, special function of, [99];
in relation to the monastic order,
99, [100];
consecration of, in Greenland, [100];
among the American tribes, [100];
among certain Negroes, [100];
in Mexico, [101];
among the Jews, [101], [102];
in the Christian Church, [102], [103];
sanctity of, [136];
authority of, [136]-138;
grades of, [137];
prophets versus, [138];
privileges of, [138];
primitive, [138];
formation as a separate class, as medical practitioners, [139], [140];
disease-making, [140];
as doctors in Australia, Africa, &c., [141];
as healers among the Negroes, [140], [141];
as mediators for the sick, [142];
irregular, [142];
miscellaneous functions, [142];
in North America as soothsayers, [144];
as fortune-tellers, &c., in Thibet, [145];
claim to inspiration, [145];
Jewish high, claims and powers of, [146];
protected by heaven, [146];
repute of Brahminical, [147];
functions of, [147];
as rain makers, &c., [148];
power and sanctity of, [148], [149];
in Ceylon and Siam, [149];
reward of, [149];
tithes to, [149];
the duty and privilege of offering, [152];
privileges of, [150];
hereditary, [151];
internally called, [152];
a demand for, [152];
infallibility, [153]
Priestesses in Guinea, [148], [149]
Prophet, anonymous, [574];
another, [578];
the anonymous, his rank among the prophets, [583];
his prophecies, [584];
the prophet of consolation, [584], [585]
Prophets of the world, the, [154];
their ultimate authority, [155];
mystically invested with superhuman endowment, [155];
their absolute consciousness, [155], [156];
their conservative spirit, [156];
the Hebrew, civil standing, [554], [555];
Elijah and Elisha, [555];
the most powerful, [570]
Prophecy, Hebrew, originally oral, then written, [570];
constant theme of, [570], [571];
minor topics, [571]
Prosperity, national or royal, Jewish, Chinese, and Thibetan theories of, [558], [559]
Protestantism and asceticism, [98]
Proverbs, the, a criticism, [568]
Psalms, the, their character, [564], [565];
of cursing (cx. and cix.), [565];
Vedic parallels, [565], [566]
Psalmists, the, their praises of Jehovah, [38]
Puberty, rites of, cruel and mysterious, [64], [65];
meaning of the rites, [65], [66];
Catlin's account of the rite among the Mandans, [66], [67];
Schoolcraft's account, [68];
rite in New South Wales, [68]-70;
and in other parts of Australia, [70], [71];
of a Phallic nature in Africa, [71]-73;
in South Seas, [73];
among the Hindus, [72], [73];
among the Parsees, [74];
among Jews and Christians, [74]
Punishment, eternal, doctrine of, [350];
in the Christian system, [638]-640
Purgatory, a merciful suggestion, [640]
Pûrna, the Christianity of, [354];
the legend of, [452]-458
Purusha Sûkta, the, a universal essence, [438], [439]
Rain, prayer for, [35], [36]
Rays of Buddha, [113]
Realism, common, in relation to God, [670], [671];
metaphysical, do., [671], [672];
comparative estimate, [672], [673];
and Idealism, unable to solve the religious problem, [698], [699]
Reality, the one, [701]
Reason, the process of, [696]
Relations, the, of time and space to mind and matter, [691], [692]
Religion, interest and importance of the subject, [19], [20];
fallacious evidences, [20], [21];
method of inquiry, [22], [23];
universality and varied phases, [22], [23];
substance and form, [22];
its root principle, [27];
craving after, [28];
twofold aspect and function, [29];
analysis of treatment of the subject in these volumes, [28]-30;
two distinct questions regarding, [645], [646];
these resolved into three, [646];
essential assumption, [647];
three fundamental postulates, [648];
two kinds of proof, [649];
universal, [649], [650];
meagre among the Australians, [650];
in Kamtschatka, [650];
the permanent in, [668], [669];
question suggested by, as regards God, [669];
conclusion of science, [677], [678];
tendency to limit itself in theology, [679], [680];
historical progress of, [681], [682];
the great truth in, offered to philosophy, [683];
involves a faith in the soul, [684]-694;
final postulate, [695];
conclusion of, neither from sense nor reason, but sentiment, [696];
conclusion of, necessary, [696];
a pervading error and a general truth in, [709];
real difficulty about, [711];
denial of its truth emotional as well as the affirmation, [712];
objections met, [710], [725];
the one universal foundation of, [718]
Religions, founders of new, [154];
their comparison, [645]
Resurrection, of Christ, accounts of the, [269];
the germ of these in Mark, [269], [270];
Matthew's, [269], [270];
Luke's, [270];
John's, [271], [272];
Paul's, [272], [273];
summary of accounts, [272], [273];
psychological explanation of the myth, [275], [277];
of Lazarus, [278], [279]
Reverend, the title of, [149]
Review, general, [643]-645
Rig Veda, the, [426], [427], [429]
Rig-Veda, Sanhitâ, its contents, [430], [435];
its praise of Agni, [431];
of Indra and the Soma, [431]-434;
of the Maruts, [434];
of Ushas, the dawn, [434];
of Varuna, [435], [436];
consciousness of one God, [437], [438];
speculative element, [440];
on the Purusha Sûkta, [438], [439];
personification of abstractions, [439], [440];
general estimate of, [440], [441];
interest to the mythologist, [441];
elementary religious ideas, [442], [443]
Ritual, early, universal development of a fixed, [49], [50];
in prayer, [50];
in worship, [51];
in Mexican and other worships, [51];
Griggories, charms in Sierra Leone, [133]
Rome, Church of, and Paganism, [56]
Rudrayana, legend of his conversion to Buddhism, [458], [459]
Sabaeism, god of, [659]
Sabbath, the Jewish, Christ's treatment of, [309]-302
Sacrament, the Christian, [46], [47]
Sacrifice, idea and origin of, [39], [40], [42], [43], [48];
motive to and duty of, [49], [50];
to the Amatongo, [40];
object of, [41], [44];
in Kamtschatka, [42];
human, [41];
animal, among the Kafirs and in Western Africa, [42];
among the American Indians, [42];
in China, [42];
among the Jews, [42], [46];
the Ibos, [42];
in South Sea Islands, [43];
among the Mexicans, Peruvians, Incas, [43];
among the Hindus, [43];
among the Parsees, [44];
Malachi on, [45];
among the Buddhists, [45];
a requirement of the religious sentiment, [45];
part of, the priests' and worshipers', [46];
among the Tembus, [46];
by libation, [46];
supposed effects on the deity, [47];
theory of, among the Hindus, [47];
idea of, fundamental to Christianity, [48], [49]
Sadducees, the, and Christ, [305], [308]
Saints, worship of, [310], [311]
Sakyamuni. See Buddha
Saleh, the legend of the prophet, [512]-514
Sâma Veda, the, [427], [429]
Sâmaria, the woman of, [281]-284
Samoans, prayer of the, [34];
drink-offerings of, [47]
Samson, the Jewish Hercules, [553]
Samudra, the legend of, [588], [589]
Samuel, government of, [553], [554]
Sanhitâs, the, what? [425], [426]
Satan in the book of Job, [563], [564]
Saturday, holy, in the Catholic Church, [55]
Scala Santa, the, [128]
Sect, Johannine, trace of a, [616]
Self-consecration common to all religions, [88];
its nature, [89];
its elements, [89]
Sennacherib, legend of, [556], [557]
Sermon on the Mount, [350], [351]
Shakers, the, [98]
She King, the, slight religious interest of, [407];
popularity of its songs, [408];
varied themes of these, [407];
the widow's protest, [408];
young lady's request to her lover, [408];
ode of filial piety, [410];
theory of kingly success, [560];
ode similar to one of psalmist David's, [567]
Ship adrift, a parallel, [718], [719]
Shoo, the four, [391]
Shoo King, the, its antiquity, [403];
doctrine of imperial duties and rights, [403], [404];
respect for the
popular mind, [404];
on the house of Hea, [404], [405];
on the house of Yin, [406];
counsels of the Duke of Chow, [406];
of the Duke of Ts'in, [406]
Shun, heaven's choice of, as king, [399], [400], [402], [406]
Simeon, his recognition of the infant Christ, [231]-235
Sin, supposed physical effects of, [36]
Sincerity, a Chinese virtue, [395]
Sneeze, a famous, in Xenophon, [111]
Sneezing, an omen, [110];
exclamations connected with, in Polynesia, Germany, Africa, &c., [110];
as an omen in Germany, [111]
Socrates, and Christ, his superior gift, [364], [366];
a Chinese, [417]
Solomon, prayer of, [35];
dedication of Temple, [83];
an Indian, [554]
Soma, a god as well as a juice, [431]
Son, the, in the Trinity, [682], [683]
Song of Solomon, traditional interpretation of, [379];
dramatic character of, [569], [570];
brief account of, [570]
Sophocles, prayer to Apollo, [39]
Soul, Indian conception of a universal, [445], [446];
Indian idea of the future of the, [446];
the universal, of the Veda, [659], [661];
faith in, involved in every religion, [684];
in Kamtschatka, Tartary, America, [685];
the Kafirs, the Ashantees, [686];
immateriality of, [687];
faith in its immortality not universal, [687], [688]
Space and time as elements, [691]
Spiegel, Dr., translation of the Zend-Avesta, [483]
Spirit, the, in the Trinity, [683]
Spirits, familiar, divination by, [108], [109]
Spiritualism, [724]
Sramana, a, defined, [94]
Srotâpanna, the, [479] (note)
Suddhodana and his queen worthy to produce Buddha, [176]
Sunday, Jewish notions of, [301]
Serpent, worship of the, [133], [134]
Suras, showing how Mahomet was possessed by his idea, [512];
the opening of the Koran, [512];
of the prophet's maturity, [513]
Sûtras, the Buddhistic, the interpretation of, [378];
tediousness, [389];
the simple and developed, [450];
diffuseness and supernatural gear, [472];
the simple, [472]
Sûtra, Prâtimoksha, the, monastic rules of, [94];
its subject, [463];
antiquity, [463];
monastic rules of, [464]-466
Sûtra-Pitaka, the, [467], [468];
stories from, [467], [468];
contents of, [468]
Svetaketu, the ill-educated young Brahman, [446]
Syrophœnicia, woman of, [244], [245]
Swimming, mixed, [460]
Tables of stone, commandments of, [551], [552]
T'ae-k'ang, the Shoo King on, [403]
Ta Hëo, the, its doctrinal character, [293];
the original text, [393], [394];
Tsang's commentary, [394];
its politico-practical character, [394]
Talapoins, the, [148], [149]
Tantras, the, [476]
Tao, description of, [414], [417];
his character, [421]
Taò-tĕ-Kīng, book of the Taò-sse, [413];
European translations, [413];
authenticity of, [414];
meaning of the title, [414];
its principal subjects, [414];
on Tao, [416], [417];
its ideal man, [417], [419];
moral doctrines, [417], [418];
most philosophical of sacred books, [414];
a perplexing study, [414];
its conception of God, [421], [422];
extract in French and German, [423], [424]
Tao-tsé, the sect, [413]
Tartars, drink-offerings among the, [47]
Tathâgata, the, [477]
Temple, rudest form of, known, [83];
Solomon's, its dedication, [83];
usual splendor of such structures, [82];
the Jewish, as a holy place, [129];
Fijian, [129], [130];
in Mexico and Peru, [130], [131]
Testament, the Old, the sum of the literary activity of the Jews, [518];
historical books, [530], [563];
doctrine of creation of the universe, [531], [532];
of animals and man, [535]-538;
account of the deluge, [542], [543];
of Abraham, [545], [546];
of the Jews in Egypt and their deliverance, [548], [549];
of the law, [549];
of the laws of the stone tablets, [552];
of settlement in Palestine, [554];
of the kings, [554], [555];
of the schism, [555];
of the captivity, [563]
Testament, New, its contents, [604]
Theologians, royal, [445]-447
Theology and religion, [681]
Theology, misconception of, [709]
Therapeutæ, the, [95]
Thibet, marriage in, [76];
death rites in, [79]
Thread, investiture with the, among the Hindus, [73], [74]
Tombs, sacred, [127]
Tongues, the gift of, at Pentecost, [605], [606];
Paul's view of, [606], [607]
Tree, the Ruminal, [113]
Trees, holy, [127], [133], [134]
Tribute, Christ on paying, [304]-306
Trinity, Scripture proof of the doctrine, [379];
rationally viewed, [681], [682]
Tripitaka, the, translations of, [449];
its origin, [450];
its divisions and their authorship, [450];
second and third editions called for, [450];
real antiquity, [451];
discoveries connected with, [451];
theology and ethics of, [476]
Tsang, commentary of, [393]
Ts'in on the choice of rulers, [406]
Tsze-Kung, hero-worship of, [168]
Unkulunkulu, the Great-great of the Kafirs, [651], [652]
Upagupta and the courtesan, [469], [470]
Upanishad, the, [444], [445]
Upâsakas, [479], [480]
Ushas, the Indian aurora, [434]
Utikxo, a greater than the Great-great, [653]
Utilitarianism sanctioned by Christ, [360]
Utshaka, his prayer for rain, [35]
Varuna, his power and attributes, [435], [436]
Veda, the, merit of studying, [373];
forced interpretation of, [377], [378];
its inspiration, [429]
Vedas, the, meaning of the term, [425];
subdivisions, literature, and versions, [425], [426];
the Sanhitâ portion, [425];
the Brâhmana, [425];
origin of the four, [427];
arrangement, [427], [428];
antiquity, [427]-429;
four epochs of development, [427];
theories of them, [428], [429];
division into Sruti and Smriti, [429];
the study of, [430]
Vedic hymns, prayer and praise in, [37], [38];
the style of, [39]
Vendidad, the, a legislative code, [497], [502];
on agriculture, [498], [499];
on penalties, [499];
on surgical training, [499]
Vinaya-Pitaka, the date, [451], [452];
specimen legend of Pûrna, [452], [458];
immediate subject of, [460], [461];
monastic rules, [461]-463
Virgin, the term in Scripture, [297]
Vishnu, the unknowable of Spencer, [659], [660]
Visvamitra, his merits and trials as an ascetic, [95], [96];
an Indian Joshua, [553]
Vocabulary, Pentaglot Buddhist, rules, [461], [462]
Voice, the still small, [603]
Volsunga-Saga, [388], [399]
Water, holy, [55];
virtues of, [135]
Wilson, H. H., translation of first five Ashtakas, [425];
on the age of the Vedas, [428]
Wisdom, Indian hymn to, [440];
worship a universal necessity, [31];
its elements, [31];
its grades, [32];
efficacy of, [32];
often selfish, [37];
considered as pleasing to deity, [37];
matter of commerce, [38];
of Zeus and Apollo, [39];
ritual in, [122]
Woo, King, legend of, [557], [558]
Xenophon, encouraged by a sneeze, [111]
Yaçna, the, of seven chapters, antiquity, [488];
theme of, [488]-490;
chapter xi., [490], [491];
the younger, [491], [496];
hymn of, in praise of the good creation, [495]
Yajur-Veda, the, [426], [427], [428]
Yaou, the Emperor, and Shun, [398], [399];
a great man, [400];
a model ruler, [403]
Yashts, the, [582], [583];
nature of, [585]
Yin, the house of, fate of, [405], [406], [559], [560]
Yu, the great, [397]
Zacharias and Elizabeth, story of, [222], [232], [297]
Zarathustra, absence of documents, [182];
fragment of biography, [182];
his daughter a disciple and apostle of his faith, [183];
his disciples, [183];
the opponents of, [183];
without honor in his own country, [184];
rejected and despised, [185];
chief article of his creed, [185];
faith in Ahura-Mazda as the one god, [185];
high descent of, [221];
his temptation, [238];
interrogates Ahura-Mazda, [479]-502;
the favors he asks from Homa, [506]
Zayd, a forerunner of Mahomet, [195]
Zealand, a preternatural birth in, [223], [224]
Zechariah, prophecies of, [229]
Zend-Avesta, the interpretation of, [378], [379];
style, [389];
translation of, [483];
chronology of, [483];
ethics of, [509];
theology, [509]
Zephaniah, the prophecy of, [578], [579]
Zeus, worship of, [38], [39]
Zoroaster. See Zarathustra