TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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General Introduction[19]
BOOK I.
EXTERNAL MANIFESTATIONS OF RELIGIOUSSENTIMENT.
Introduction to Book I.[27]
FIRST PART.
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION UPWARDS.
CHAP.
I.Consecrated Actions[31]
II.Consecrated Places[82]
III.Consecrated Objects[84]
IV.Consecrated Persons[88]
V.Consecrated Mediators[99]
SECOND PART.
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION DOWNWARDS.
Classification[104]
I.Holy Events[106]
II.Holy Places[126]
III.Holy Objects[132]
IV.Holy Orders[136]
V.Holy Persons or Prophets[154]
Sect. 1. Confucius[157]
Sect. 2. Laò-tsé[168]
Sect. 3. Gautama Buddha[170]
Subdiv'n 1. The Historical Buddha[170]
Subdiv'n 2. The Mythical Buddha[175]
Sect. 4. Zarathustra[182]
Sect. 5. Mahomet[186]
Sect. 6. Jesus Christ[199]
Subdiv'n 1. The Historical Jesus[201]
Subdiv'n 2. The Mythical Jesus[216]
Subdiv'n 3. The Ideal Jesus[277]
Subdiv'n 4. What did the Jews think of him?[287]
Subdiv'n 5. What did he think of himself?[316]
Subdiv'n 6. What did his Disciples think of him?[326]
Subdiv'n 7. What are we to think of him?[329]
VI.Holy Books, or Bibles[369]
Sect. 1. The Thirteen King[390]
Subdiv'n 1. The Lun Yu[392]
Subdiv'n 2. The Ta Hëo[393]
Subdiv'n 3. The Chung Yung[394]
Subdiv'n 4. The Works of Măng-tsze[396]
Subdiv'n 5. The Shoo King[403]
Subdiv'n 6. The She King[407]
Subdiv'n 7. The Ch'un Ts'ëw[410]
Sect. 2. Taò-tĕ-Kīng[413]
Appendix.—Translations of the Taò-tĕ-Kīng,Chapter XXV[423]
Sect. 3. The Veda[425]
Subdiv'n 1. The Sanhitâ[430]
Subdiv'n 2. The Brâhmanas[443]
Sect. 4. The Tripitaka[448]
Subdiv'n 1. The Vinaya-Pitaka[451]
Subdiv'n 2. The Sûtra-Pitaka[467]
Subdiv'n 3. The Abhidharma-Pitaka[473]
Subdiv'n 4. Theology and Ethics of theTripitaka[476]
Sect. 5. The Zend-Avesta[482]
Subdiv'n 1. The Five Gâthâs[484]
Subdiv'n 2. The Yaçna of Seven Chapters[488]
Subdiv'n 3. Yaçna, Chapter XII[490]
Subdiv'n 4. The Younger Yaçna, and Vispored[491]
Subdiv'n 5. Vendidad[496]
Subdiv'n 6. The Khorda-Avesta, with the Homa Yasht[502]
Sect. 6. The Koran[510]
Sect. 7. The Old Testament[518]
Subdiv'n 1. The Historical Books[530]
Subdiv'n 2. Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes[563]
Subdiv'n 3. The Song of Solomon[569]
Subdiv'n 4. The Prophets[569]
Subdiv'n 5. The God of Israel[590]
Sect. 8. The New Testament[604]
Subdiv'n 1. The Acts of the Apostles[604]
Subdiv'n 2. The Epistles[617]
Subdiv'n 3. The Apocalypse[634]
Subdiv'n 4. The God of Christendom[636]
THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT ITSELF.
VII.The Ultimate Elements[643]
VIII.The Objective Element[649]
IX.The Subjective Element[684]
X.The Relation of the Objective and Subjective Elements[695]
INDEX[729]