[A] Vide Glasgow Herald, January, 1898.
[B] Those who have not yet read that pathetically beautiful book, The Soul of a People, by H. Fielding, are referred to chapters x. and xi., wherein are set forth the true characteristics, functions, and aspirations of the Buddhist monkhood in Burma.
[C] Author's translation of Bostān of Sâdi.
[D] An indiscriminate denunciation of the Pharisees is, I think, unjustifiable. They must be held deserving of commendation in so far as they were guided by conscience to a close adherence to the letter of that Law which had been delivered to them by the Almighty, through Ezra the Lawyer, for strict and undeviating observance.
[E] Buddhism in Translations, p. 434.
[F] Maimonides and the Kabbalists speak of Genii—semi-material beings whose bodies are of fire, air, water, mixed with fine earth and visible at times to man. Vide Bible Folk-Lore (p. 190), by the author of Rabbi Jeshua.
[G] "St. John and Philo-Judæus," by W. E. Ball (Contemporary Review, January, 1898).
[H] The Angel-Messiah of Buddhists, Essenes, and Christians, pp. 25, 32.
[I] "Jesus is the father of all those who seek in dreams of the ideal the repose of their souls" (Renan).
[J] Vide General Forlong's Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religions.