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
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.
Celtic.
High German.
Italic. Hellenic. - Slavonic. - North-Western Division. —
South-Eastern Division.-Indic class, Vedic Hymns, Brâh-
manas, Sûtras, Pâninean Sanskrit.-Inscriptions of Piyadasi,
third century B. C.-Buddhist Sanskrit.-Renaissance of San-
skrit literature.-Prâkrit.-Vernaculars.-Sacred Books.-Iranic
class. Cuneiform Persian inscriptions. - Pehlevi. — Bask,
Etruscan.-SEMITIC FAMILY.-Aramaic.-Chaldaic and Syriac.
-Hebraic.-Arabic.-Ethiopic