in Ireland and Scotland, 114;
at birth of great men, 114, 115
Ophites, the, their worship, 134
Ordeals, as a moral test, 119;
in Western Africa, 119;
among the Hebrews, 120;
among the Negroes, 120;
among the Ostiacks, 121
Orders, holy, in the Church of England, 102, 103;
Buddhist monastic rules, 104-106
Ормазд. См. Ахура-Мазда
Pachacamac, or the universal soul, 658
Palestine, state of, in days of Christ, 209, 210
Parker, Theodore, 641
Parsees, sacrifices among the, 44;
prayers, 50;
festivals of, 53;
baptism among, 61, 62;
burial rites, 78, 80
Parseeism, rise of, 484;
reformers' hymn, 483;
religious zeal of, 486;
objects of worship, 489;
fire-worship, 490, 491;
confession of faith, 490, 491;
new divinities, 491, 493;
respect for dogs, 499, 500;
later respect for purity, 500, 501;
times of, 507, 508;
eight commandments of, 550, 551
Passover, the Jewish, 55
Patets, the Parsees, 506, 507
Patria Potestas, the, in Judea and Rome, 600, 601
Paul, his independence and concession to Jewish prejudices, 330, 331;
his views of the Mosaic law, 332, 333;
idea of the coming of Christ, 334, 335;
as a persecutor, 608;
accounts of his conversion, 608-610;
his consecration, 611;
at Paphos, 611;
in Antioch, 611;
at Lystra, taken for Hermes, 611;
for a god, 611;
parallel in the case of Sir Francis Drake, 612, 613;
stoned, 614;
parts with Barnabas, 614;
chooses Silas, 614;
at Phillippi, 614;
at Athens, 614;
at Corinth, 614;
at Ephesus, 614, 615;
at Troas, 616;
at Jerusalem, 616, 617;
appeal to Cæsar, 616;
in Rome, 617;
his equal apostleship, 621, 622;
his epistles, their style and spirit, 623;
his reasoning powers, 623, 624;
his exclusive regard for essential principles, 623, 624;
denunciation of cohabitation with a stepmother, 626;
against prostitution, 626;
views on matrimony, 628, 629, 630, 632;
rules affecting widows, 629;
preference for celibacy, 630;
allows bishops and deacons to marry, 630;
on divorce, 632;
on the resurrection of the dead, 632-634;
on brotherly love, 634;
other maxims, 634
Perseus, myth of his birth, 229
Persia, power of, 482
Peru, monasticism in, 91, 92
Peruvians, festivals of, 55;
baptism among, 58
Peter, call of, 240;
his denial of Christ, 262;
his confession, 327;
his vision, 328;
and Judaism, 329, 330;
idea of kingdom of heaven, 335, 336;
conduct towards Ananias and Sapphira, 606, 607;
deliverance by an angel, 608;
scandal caused by, 610;
his epistles, 619
Pharisee, the, and publican, 344
Pharisees, and Christ, 300, 305;
denounced by Christ, 308, 309
Phinehas and the Midianitish woman, 597
Pilate, as governor of Judea, 262, 263;
treatment of Christ, 263, 265;
Christ before, 313
"Pilgrim's Progress," 635, 636. See Bunyan
Places, holy, 82, 83;
особые места обитания
of the divine, 126, 127;
in Africa and South Seas, 127;
in Ceylon, (the Bo-tree), 127;
graves as, 127, 128;
in history, 128;
oracles, 128;
by consecration—the temple, 128, 129;
holy of holies, 130
Платон, его описание философа в «Теэтете», 170
Polynesia, burial rites in, 78
Positivism, weak point in, 157
Pourutschista, St., 183, 184
Power, the Unknown, not a suggestion of sense, 696, or of reason, 696, 697, but of religious sentiment, 697, 698;
idea of, unaccounted for by Realism, common and metaphysical, 698;
moderate and extreme Idealism, 698;
neither one nor many, but all, 699, 700;
sense of, an intuition, 700, 701;
of kin to mind, as in man, 701, 702;
includes consciousness, 702;
includes our nature, 702;
the universal solvent, 703, 704;
fountain of all reservoirs of force, 705;
allows nothing to be a law to itself, 705;
our knowledge of, no riddle, 707;
illustrations, 708-712;
the denial of, an affirmation, 717;
faith in, the foundation of religious faith, 718;
answer to charge of vagueness, 719, 720;
not a father, not a judge, 720;
harmony of the idea of, with deep religious feeling, 721
Praise conjoined with prayer, 32-37;
part of worship, 37, 38;
Christian and heathen compared, 38
Prajapati, 535
Prayer, its influence, 32;
its concomitant, praise, 32;
its primitive form and purpose, 33;
specimens of primitive, 33;
of Indians, preparing for war, 33;
of a Huron, 33;
of Kafirs, 34;
of Caribbean Islanders, 34;
of the Samoans, 34;
Polynesian, 34;
Vedic, 35-37;
Solomon's, 35;
special, 35;
efficacy, 35;
for rain and other physical benefits, 36;
for Thebes, 38;
specimens of, 38-40;
and sacrifice, 39;
forms of, 50;
Christ's doctrine of, 350;
the Lord's, 356-358
Pre-Adamites, Buddhist, 460
Priests, special function of, 99;
в отношении монашеского ордена,
99, 100;
consecration of, in Greenland, 100;
among the American tribes, 100;
among certain Negroes, 100;
in Mexico, 101;
among the Jews, 101, 102;
in the Christian Church, 102, 103;
sanctity of, 136;
authority of, 136-138;
grades of, 137;
prophets versus, 138;
privileges of, 138;
primitive, 138;
formation as a separate class, as medical practitioners, 139, 140;
disease-making, 140;
as doctors in Australia, Africa, &c., 141;
as healers among the Negroes, 140, 141;
as mediators for the sick, 142;
irregular, 142;
miscellaneous functions, 142;
in North America as soothsayers, 144;
as fortune-tellers, &c., in Thibet, 145;
claim to inspiration, 145;
Jewish high, claims and powers of, 146;
protected by heaven, 146;
repute of Brahminical, 147;
functions of, 147;
as rain makers, &c., 148;
power and sanctity of, 148, 149;
in Ceylon and Siam, 149;
reward of, 149;
tithes to, 149;
the duty and privilege of offering, 152;
privileges of, 150;
hereditary, 151;
internally called, 152;
a demand for, 152;
infallibility, 153
Priestesses in Guinea, 148, 149
Prophet, anonymous, 574;
another, 578;
the anonymous, his rank among the prophets, 583;
his prophecies, 584;
the prophet of consolation, 584, 585
Prophets of the world, the, 154;
their ultimate authority, 155;
mystically invested with superhuman endowment, 155;
their absolute consciousness, 155, 156;
their conservative spirit, 156;
the Hebrew, civil standing, 554, 555;
Elijah and Elisha, 555;
the most powerful, 570
Prophecy, Hebrew, originally oral, then written, 570;
constant theme of, 570, 571;
minor topics, 571
Prosperity, national or royal, Jewish, Chinese, and Thibetan theories of, 558, 559
Protestantism and asceticism, 98
Proverbs, the, a criticism, 568
Psalms, the, their character, 564, 565;
of cursing (cx. and cix.), 565;
Vedic parallels, 565, 566
Psalmists, the, their praises of Jehovah, 38
Puberty, rites of, cruel and mysterious, 64, 65;
meaning of the rites, 65, 66;
Catlin's account of the rite among the Mandans, 66, 67;
Schoolcraft's account, 68;
rite in New South Wales, 68-70;
and in other parts of Australia, 70, 71;
of a Phallic nature in Africa, 71-73;
in South Seas, 73;
among the Hindus, 72, 73;
among the Parsees, 74;
among Jews and Christians, 74
Punishment, eternal, doctrine of, 350;
in the Christian system, 638-640
Purgatory, a merciful suggestion, 640
Pûrna, the Christianity of, 354;
the legend of, 452-458
Purusha Sûkta, the, a universal essence, 438, 439
Rain, prayer for, 35, 36
Rays of Buddha, 113
Realism, common, in relation to God, 670, 671;
metaphysical, do., 671, 672;
comparative estimate, 672, 673;
and Idealism, unable to solve the religious problem, 698, 699
Reality, the one, 701
Reason, the process of, 696
Relations, the, of time and space to mind and matter, 691, 692
Religion, interest and importance of the subject, 19, 20;
fallacious evidences, 20, 21;
method of inquiry, 22, 23;
universality and varied phases, 22, 23;
substance and form, 22;
its root principle, 27;
craving after, 28;
twofold aspect and function, 29;
analysis of treatment of the subject in these volumes, 28-30;
two distinct questions regarding, 645, 646;
these resolved into three, 646;
essential assumption, 647;
three fundamental postulates, 648;
two kinds of proof, 649;
universal, 649, 650;
meagre among the Australians, 650;
in Kamtschatka, 650;
the permanent in, 668, 669;
question suggested by, as regards God, 669;
conclusion of science, 677, 678;
tendency to limit itself in theology, 679, 680;
historical progress of, 681, 682;
the great truth in, offered to philosophy, 683;
involves a faith in the soul, 684-694;
final postulate, 695;
conclusion of, neither from sense nor reason, but sentiment, 696;
conclusion of, necessary, 696;
a pervading error and a general truth in, 709;
real difficulty about, 711;
denial of its truth emotional as well as the affirmation, 712;
objections met, 710, 725;
the one universal foundation of, 718
Religions, founders of new, 154;
their comparison, 645
Resurrection, of Christ, accounts of the, 269;
the germ of these in Mark, 269, 270;
Matthew's, 269, 270;
Luke's, 270;
John's, 271, 272;
Paul's, 272, 273;
summary of accounts, 272, 273;
psychological explanation of the myth, 275, 277;
of Lazarus, 278, 279
Reverend, the title of, 149
Review, general, 643-645
Rig Veda, the, 426, 427, 429
Rig-Veda, Sanhitâ, its contents, 430, 435;
its praise of Agni, 431;
of Indra and the Soma, 431-434;
of the Maruts, 434;
of Ushas, the dawn, 434;
of Varuna, 435, 436;
consciousness of one God, 437, 438;
speculative element, 440;
on the Purusha Sûkta, 438, 439;
personification of abstractions, 439, 440;
general estimate of, 440, 441;
interest to the mythologist, 441;
elementary religious ideas, 442, 443
Ritual, early, universal development of a fixed, 49, 50;
in prayer, 50;
in worship, 51;
in Mexican and other worships, 51;
Griggories, charms in Sierra Leone, 133
Rome, Church of, and Paganism, 56
Rudrayana, legend of his conversion to Buddhism, 458, 459
Sabaeism, god of, 659
Sabbath, the Jewish, Christ's treatment of, 309-302
Sacrament, the Christian, 46, 47
Sacrifice, idea and origin of, 39, 40, 42, 43, 48;
motive to and duty of, 49, 50;
to the Amatongo, 40;
object of, 41, 44;
in Kamtschatka, 42;
human, 41;
animal, among the Kafirs and in Western Africa, 42;
among the American Indians, 42;
in China, 42;
among the Jews, 42, 46;
the Ibos, 42;
in South Sea Islands, 43;
among the Mexicans, Peruvians, Incas, 43;
among the Hindus, 43;
among the Parsees, 44;
Malachi on, 45;
among the Buddhists, 45;
a requirement of the religious sentiment, 45;
part of, the priests' and worshipers', 46;
among the Tembus, 46;
by libation, 46;
supposed effects on the deity, 47;
theory of, among the Hindus, 47;
idea of, fundamental to Christianity, 48, 49
Sadducees, the, and Christ, 305, 308
Saints, worship of, 310, 311
Шакьямуни. См. Будда
Saleh, the legend of the prophet, 512-514
Sâma Veda, the, 427, 429
Sâmaria, the woman of, 281-284
Samoans, prayer of the, 34;
drink-offerings of, 47
Samson, the Jewish Hercules, 553
Samudra, the legend of, 588, 589
Samuel, government of, 553, 554
Sanhitâs, the, what? 425, 426
Satan in the book of Job, 563, 564
Saturday, holy, in the Catholic Church, 55
Scala Santa, the, 128
Sect, Johannine, trace of a, 616
Self-consecration common to all religions, 88;
its nature, 89;
its elements, 89
Sennacherib, legend of, 556, 557
Sermon on the Mount, 350, 351
Shakers, the, 98
She King, the, slight religious interest of, 407;
popularity of its songs, 408;
varied themes of these, 407;
the widow's protest, 408;
young lady's request to her lover, 408;
ode of filial piety, 410;
theory of kingly success, 560;
ode similar to one of psalmist David's, 567
Ship adrift, a parallel, 718, 719
Shoo, the four, 391
Shoo King, the, its antiquity, 403;
doctrine of imperial duties and rights, 403, 404;
уважение к
popular mind, 404;
on the house of Hea, 404, 405;
on the house of Yin, 406;
counsels of the Duke of Chow, 406;
of the Duke of Ts'in, 406
Shun, heaven's choice of, as king, 399, 400, 402, 406
Simeon, his recognition of the infant Christ, 231-235
Sin, supposed physical effects of, 36
Sincerity, a Chinese virtue, 395
Sneeze, a famous, in Xenophon, 111
Sneezing, an omen, 110;
exclamations connected with, in Polynesia, Germany, Africa, &c., 110;
as an omen in Germany, 111
Socrates, and Christ, his superior gift, 364, 366;
a Chinese, 417
Solomon, prayer of, 35;
dedication of Temple, 83;
an Indian, 554
Soma, a god as well as a juice, 431
Son, the, in the Trinity, 682, 683
Song of Solomon, traditional interpretation of, 379;
dramatic character of, 569, 570;
brief account of, 570
Sophocles, prayer to Apollo, 39
Soul, Indian conception of a universal, 445, 446;
Indian idea of the future of the, 446;
the universal, of the Veda, 659, 661;
faith in, involved in every religion, 684;
in Kamtschatka, Tartary, America, 685;
the Kafirs, the Ashantees, 686;
immateriality of, 687;
faith in its immortality not universal, 687, 688
Space and time as elements, 691
Spiegel, Dr., translation of the Zend-Avesta, 483
Spirit, the, in the Trinity, 683
Spirits, familiar, divination by, 108, 109
Spiritualism, 724
Sramana, a, defined, 94
Srotâpanna, the, 479 (note)
Suddhodana and his queen worthy to produce Buddha, 176
Sunday, Jewish notions of, 301
Serpent, worship of the, 133, 134
Suras, showing how Mahomet was possessed by his idea, 512;
the opening of the Koran, 512;
of the prophet's maturity, 513
Sûtras, the Buddhistic, the interpretation of, 378;
tediousness, 389;
the simple and developed, 450;
diffuseness and supernatural gear, 472;
the simple, 472
Sûtra, Prâtimoksha, the, monastic rules of, 94;
its subject, 463;
antiquity, 463;
monastic rules of, 464-466
Sûtra-Pitaka, the, 467, 468;
stories from, 467, 468;
contents of, 468
Svetaketu, the ill-educated young Brahman, 446
Syrophœnicia, woman of, 244, 245
Swimming, mixed, 460
Tables of stone, commandments of, 551, 552
T'ae-k'ang, the Shoo King on, 403
Ta Hëo, the, its doctrinal character, 293;
the original text, 393, 394;
Tsang's commentary, 394;
its politico-practical character, 394
Talapoins, the, 148, 149
Tantras, the, 476
Tao, description of, 414, 417;
his character, 421
Taò-tĕ-Kīng, book of the Taò-sse, 413;
European translations, 413;
authenticity of, 414;
meaning of the title, 414;
its principal subjects, 414;
on Tao, 416, 417;
its ideal man, 417, 419;
moral doctrines, 417, 418;
most philosophical of sacred books, 414;
a perplexing study, 414;
its conception of God, 421, 422;
extract in French and German, 423, 424
Tao-tsé, the sect, 413
Tartars, drink-offerings among the, 47
Tathâgata, the, 477
Temple, rudest form of, known, 83;
Solomon's, its dedication, 83;
usual splendor of such structures, 82;
the Jewish, as a holy place, 129;
Fijian, 129, 130;
in Mexico and Peru, 130, 131
Testament, the Old, the sum of the literary activity of the Jews, 518;
historical books, 530, 563;
doctrine of creation of the universe, 531, 532;
of animals and man, 535-538;
account of the deluge, 542, 543;
of Abraham, 545, 546;
of the Jews in Egypt and their deliverance, 548, 549;
of the law, 549;
of the laws of the stone tablets, 552;
of settlement in Palestine, 554;
of the kings, 554, 555;
of the schism, 555;
of the captivity, 563
Testament, New, its contents, 604
Theologians, royal, 445-447
Theology and religion, 681
Theology, misconception of, 709
Therapeutæ, the, 95
Thibet, marriage in, 76;
death rites in, 79
Thread, investiture with the, among the Hindus, 73, 74
Tombs, sacred, 127
Tongues, the gift of, at Pentecost, 605, 606;
Paul's view of, 606, 607
Tree, the Ruminal, 113
Trees, holy, 127, 133, 134
Tribute, Christ on paying, 304-306
Trinity, Scripture proof of the doctrine, 379;
rationally viewed, 681, 682
Tripitaka, the, translations of, 449;
its origin, 450;
its divisions and their authorship, 450;
second and third editions called for, 450;
real antiquity, 451;
discoveries connected with, 451;
theology and ethics of, 476
Tsang, commentary of, 393
Ts'in on the choice of rulers, 406
Tsze-Kung, hero-worship of, 168
Unkulunkulu, the Great-great of the Kafirs, 651, 652
Upagupta and the courtesan, 469, 470
Upanishad, the, 444, 445
Upâsakas, 479, 480
Ushas, the Indian aurora, 434
Utikxo, a greater than the Great-great, 653
Utilitarianism sanctioned by Christ, 360
Utshaka, his prayer for rain, 35
Varuna, his power and attributes, 435, 436
Veda, the, merit of studying, 373;
forced interpretation of, 377, 378;
its inspiration, 429
Vedas, the, meaning of the term, 425;
subdivisions, literature, and versions, 425, 426;
the Sanhitâ portion, 425;
the Brâhmana, 425;
origin of the four, 427;
arrangement, 427, 428;
antiquity, 427-429;
four epochs of development, 427;
theories of them, 428, 429;
division into Sruti and Smriti, 429;
the study of, 430
Vedic hymns, prayer and praise in, 37, 38;
the style of, 39
Vendidad, the, a legislative code, 497, 502;
on agriculture, 498, 499;
on penalties, 499;
on surgical training, 499
Vinaya-Pitaka, the date, 451, 452;
specimen legend of Pûrna, 452, 458;
immediate subject of, 460, 461;
monastic rules, 461-463
Virgin, the term in Scripture, 297
Vishnu, the unknowable of Spencer, 659, 660
Visvamitra, his merits and trials as an ascetic, 95, 96;
an Indian Joshua, 553
Vocabulary, Pentaglot Buddhist, rules, 461, 462
Voice, the still small, 603
Volsunga-Saga, 388, 399
Water, holy, 55;
virtues of, 135
Wilson, H. H., translation of first five Ashtakas, 425;
on the age of the Vedas, 428
Wisdom, Indian hymn to, 440;
worship a universal necessity, 31;
its elements, 31;
its grades, 32;
efficacy of, 32;
often selfish, 37;
considered as pleasing to deity, 37;
matter of commerce, 38;
of Zeus and Apollo, 39;
ritual in, 122
Woo, King, legend of, 557, 558
Xenophon, encouraged by a sneeze, 111
Yaçna, the, of seven chapters, antiquity, 488;
theme of, 488-490;
chapter xi., 490, 491;
the younger, 491, 496;
hymn of, in praise of the good creation, 495
Yajur-Veda, the, 426, 427, 428
Yaou, the Emperor, and Shun, 398, 399;
a great man, 400;
a model ruler, 403
Yashts, the, 582, 583;
nature of, 585
Yin, the house of, fate of, 405, 406, 559, 560
Yu, the great, 397
Zacharias and Elizabeth, story of, 222, 232, 297
Zarathustra, absence of documents, 182;
fragment of biography, 182;
his daughter a disciple and apostle of his faith, 183;
his disciples, 183;
the opponents of, 183;
without honor in his own country, 184;
rejected and despised, 185;
chief article of his creed, 185;
faith in Ahura-Mazda as the one god, 185;
high descent of, 221;
his temptation, 238;
interrogates Ahura-Mazda, 479-502;
the favors he asks from Homa, 506
Zayd, a forerunner of Mahomet, 195
Zealand, a preternatural birth in, 223, 224
Zechariah, prophecies of, 229
Zend-Avesta, the interpretation of, 378, 379;
style, 389;
translation of, 483;
chronology of, 483;
ethics of, 509;
theology, 509
Zephaniah, the prophecy of, 578, 579
Zeus, worship of, 38, 39
Зороастр. См. Заратустра
СНОСКИ:
[1] This prayer, which is too long to quote, may be found in Aglio, A. M., v. 372, and in Sahagun, C. N. E., book vi. chap. 8. According to Sahagun, it contains "muy delicada materia."