COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS.
Modern problems to be traced back.-Creation.-The logic of
facts. Cosmological argument. — Aryan savages. —Why ?—
Answers to the cosmological question.-Emanation.-Emana-
tion or srishti.-Golden egg.—Teleological argument.—An-
thropomorphism.—Ontological argument.—A creator.—Origin
of the idea of cause.--Religions without a creator.-The
theory of evolution.—Meaning of evolution.—Darwin admits a
creator.-Herder, the precursor of Darwin.-Evolution in the
beginning of our century.-Gottfried Hermann.-Kant on
the Chimpanzee. Darwin. — Oken. — Reaction. Historical
school, its true character.-Stanley.-Necessity of an historical
study of religion.-Criticisms answered
MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF NATURAL RELIGION.
Language, Myth, Customs and Laws, Sacred Books.-Lan-
guage as evidence.-Survey of languages.-ARYAN FAMILY.—
English. -Veda = olda.—Anglo-Saxon. — Gothic.- Continental
Saxon.-Scandinavian.-Thorr and Thursday.-Týr and Tues-
day. Wodan and Wednesday. - High German. Celtic.-
Italic. Hellenic. - Slavonic. —North-Western Division.
South-Eastern Division.-Indic class, Vedic Hymns, Brah-
manas, Sûtras, Pâninean Sanskrit.—Inscriptions of Piyadasi,
third century B. C.-Buddhist Sanskrit.-Renaissance of San-
skrit literature.-Prakrit.-Vernaculars.-Sacred Books.-Iranic
class. Cuneiform Persian inscriptions. - Pehlevi. - Bask,
Etruscan.-SEMITIC FAMILY.-Aramaic.-Chaldaic and Syriac.