[Footnote 127: Introduction to Christian Theology, Appendix, pp. 166, 167.]
[Footnote 128: Ebrard's Apologetics, vols. ii. and iii.]
[Footnote 129: Modern Atheism, p. 13.]
[Footnote 130: The Chinese, pp. 163, 164.]
[Footnote 131: Chips from a German Workshop, vol. i., p. 23.]
[Footnote 132: Professor Banergea (see Indian Antiquary, February, 1875) thinks that this Hindu account of creation shows traces of the common revelation made to mankind.]
[Footnote 133: Science of Religion, p. 99.]
[Footnote 134: Science of Religion, p. 88.]
[Footnote 135: "The ancient relics of African faith are rapidly disappearing at the approach of Mohammedan and Christian missionaries; but what has been preserved of it, chiefly through the exertions of learned missionaries, is full of interest to the student of religion, with its strange worship of snakes and ancestors, its vague hope of a future life, and its not altogether faded reminiscence of a Supreme God, the Father of the black as well as of the white man."—Science of Religion, p. 39.]
[Footnote 136: While he maintains that the idea of God must have preceded that of gods, as the plural always implies the singular, he yet claims very justly that the exclusive conception of monotheism as against polytheism could hardly have existed. Men simply thought of God as God, as a child thinks of its father, and does not even raise the question of a second.—See Chips from a German Workshop, vol. i., p. 349.]