Ravenscroft,
November 1875.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE
General Introduction[19]
BOOK I.
EXTERNAL MANIFESTATIONS OF RELIGIOUSSENTIMENT.
Introduction to Book I.[27]
FIRST PART.
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION UPWARDS.
CHAP.
I.Consecrated Actions[31]
II.Consecrated Places[82]
III.Consecrated Objects[84]
IV.Consecrated Persons[88]
V.Consecrated Mediators[99]
SECOND PART.
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION DOWNWARDS.
Classification[104]
I.Holy Events[106]
II.Holy Places[126]
III.Holy Objects[132]
IV.Holy Orders[136]
V.Holy Persons or Prophets[154]
Sect. 1. Confucius[157]
Sect. 2. Laò-tsé[168]
Sect. 3. Gautama Buddha[170]
Subdiv'n 1. The Historical Buddha[170]
Subdiv'n 2. The Mythical Buddha[175]
Sect. 4. Zarathustra[182]
Sect. 5. Mahomet[186]
Sect. 6. Jesus Christ[199]
Subdiv'n 1. The Historical Jesus[201]
Subdiv'n 2. The Mythical Jesus[216]
Subdiv'n 3. The Ideal Jesus[277]
Subdiv'n 4. What did the Jews think of him?[287]
Subdiv'n 5. What did he think of himself?[316]
Subdiv'n 6. What did his Disciples think of him?[326]
Subdiv'n 7. What are we to think of him?[329]
VI.Holy Books, or Bibles[369]
Sect. 1. The Thirteen King[390]
Subdiv'n 1. The Lun Yu[392]
Subdiv'n 2. The Ta Hëo[393]
Subdiv'n 3. The Chung Yung[394]
Subdiv'n 4. The Works of Măng-tsze[396]
Subdiv'n 5. The Shoo King[403]
Subdiv'n 6. The She King[407]
Subdiv'n 7. The Ch'un Ts'ëw[410]
Sect. 2. Taò-tĕ-Kīng[413]
Appendix.—Translations of the Taò-tĕ-Kīng,Chapter XXV[423]
Sect. 3. The Veda[425]
Subdiv'n 1. The Sanhitâ[430]
Subdiv'n 2. The Brâhmanas[443]
Sect. 4. The Tripitaka[448]
Subdiv'n 1. The Vinaya-Pitaka[451]
Subdiv'n 2. The Sûtra-Pitaka[467]
Subdiv'n 3. The Abhidharma-Pitaka[473]
Subdiv'n 4. Theology and Ethics of theTripitaka[476]
Sect. 5. The Zend-Avesta[482]
Subdiv'n 1. The Five Gâthâs[484]
Subdiv'n 2. The Yaçna of Seven Chapters[488]
Subdiv'n 3. Yaçna, Chapter XII[490]
Subdiv'n 4. The Younger Yaçna, and Vispored[491]
Subdiv'n 5. Vendidad[496]
Subdiv'n 6. The Khorda-Avesta, with the Homa Yasht[502]
Sect. 6. The Koran[510]
Sect. 7. The Old Testament[518]
Subdiv'n 1. The Historical Books[530]
Subdiv'n 2. Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes[563]
Subdiv'n 3. The Song of Solomon[569]
Subdiv'n 4. The Prophets[569]
Subdiv'n 5. The God of Israel[590]
Sect. 8. The New Testament[604]
Subdiv'n 1. The Acts of the Apostles[604]
Subdiv'n 2. The Epistles[617]
Subdiv'n 3. The Apocalypse[634]
Subdiv'n 4. The God of Christendom[636]
THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT ITSELF.
VII.The Ultimate Elements[643]
VIII.The Objective Element[649]
IX.The Subjective Element[684]
X.The Relation of the Objective and Subjective Elements[695]
INDEX[729]

EXPLANATION OF SHORT TITLES.

In order to avoid encumbering the pages with notes containing the names of books, many of which would require to be frequently repeated, I have adopted, in referring to the under-mentioned works, the following abbreviations:—

A. B....The Aitareya Brâhmanam of the Rig-Veda. Edited, translated, and explained by Martin Haug, Ph.D. Vol. i. Sanscrit text. Vol. ii. Translation, with notes. Bombay, 1863.

A. I. C....An Account of the Island of Ceylon, by Robert Percival, Esq., of His Majesty's 19th Regiment of Foot. London, 1803.

A. M....Antiquities of Mexico (Lord Kingsborough's), comprising fac similes of Ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by Mons. Dupaix; with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts, by Augustine Aglio. In 9 vols. London, 1831-48.

A. N. L....Ante-Nicene Christian Library; translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870, &c.

A. R....Algic Researches, comprising inquiries respecting the mental characteristics of the North American Indians. First Series. Indian Tales and Legends. In 2 vols. By Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. New York, 1839.