[2054] Payne, History of the New World called America; Markham, Rites and Laws of the Incas; Prescott, Conquest of Peru, bk. i, chap. iii.
[2055] On India's fertility in the production of religions cf. Bloomfield, Religion of the Veda, p. 2 ff.
[2056] This organization was first called the "Brahma-Samaj" (the Church of Brahma), later the "Adi-Samaj" (the First Church).
[2057] The Brahma-Samaj.
[2058] There are other theistic bodies in India. The Arya-Samaj (Aryan Church) derives its doctrines (monotheism and other) from the Veda (necessarily by a forced interpretation); it is a sort of protest against foreign (Christian) influence. See articles "Arya Samaj" and "Brahma Samaj" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
[2059] Gobineau, Les religions et les philosophies dans l'Asie centrale; R. G. Browne, The Episode of the Bab and The New History of the Bab; article "Bab, Babis" in Hastings, op. cit.; article "Bahaism" in the Nouveau Larousse, Supplément; Some Answered Questions, translated by Laura C. Burney (exposition of the doctrine by the son of the Bahaist founder).
[2060] Babism is fairly well represented in Persia at the present day; see R. G. Browne.
[2061] Cf. articles in Herzog-Hauck, Real-Encyklopädie; McClintock and Strong, Biblical Cyclopædia; New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge.
[2062] On the community founded by Pythagoras see the histories of philosophy; it appears to have embodied a suggestion of monastic life, but its origin is uncertain.
[2063] The Hebrew Nazirite vow, for example, was merely a consecration of a part of the body to the deity with the observance of old nomadic customs of food and dwellings.