His truth, which all times firmly stood,
To endless ages shall endure. Amen.”
[2.] Different systems of classification applied to the religions of the world are discussed in my Introduction to the Science of Religion, pp. 122–143.
[3.] “Proselyto ne fidas usque ad vigesimam quartam generationem,” Jalkut Ruth, f. 163. d; Danz, in Meuschen, Nov. Test, ex Talm. illustr., p. 651.
[4.] India, Progress and Condition, Blue Book presented to Parliament, 1873, p. 99. “It is asserted (but the assertion must be taken with reserve) that it is a mistake to suppose that the Hindu religion is not proselytizing. Any number of outsiders, so long as they do not interfere with established castes, can form a new caste, and call themselves Hindus, and the Brahmans are always ready to receive all who submit to and pay them.” Can this be called proselytizing?
[5.] Cf. Mahavanso, cap. 5.
[6.] Cf. Mahavanso, cap. 12.
[7.] In some of the places mentioned by the Chronicle as among the earliest stations of Buddhist missions, relics have been discovered containing the names of the very missionaries mentioned by the Chronicle. See Koeppen, Die Religion des Buddha, p. 188.
[9.] “Islâm is the verbal noun, and Moslim the participle of the same root, which also yields Salâm, peace, and salim and salym, whole, honest. Islâm means, therefore, to satisfy or pacify by forbearance; it also means simply subjection.” Sprenger, Mohammad, i. p. 69; iii. 486.