[47] “Select Works,” p. 159.
[48] Ibid., p. 92.
[49] “Aitareya Brahmanan,” Introduction.
[50] The name is used in the sense of the Greek word ανθροπος.
[51] The traditions of the Oriental Kabalists claim their science to be older than that. Modern scientists may doubt and reject the assertion. They cannot prove it false.
[52] Clement of Alexandria asserted that in his day the Egyptian priests possessed forty-two Canonical Books.
[53] “Chips from a German Work-shop,” vol. ii., p. 7. “Comparative Mythology.”
[54] “Conflict between Religion and Science,” ch. i.
[55] In another place, we explain with some minuteness the Hermetic philosophy of the evolution of the spheres and their several races.
[56] J. Burges: “The Works of Plato,” p. 207, note.