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THE INFINITE IN NATURE, IN MAN, AND IN THE SELF.

Positivist objections.-Historical evolution.-Positivist point
of view.-Rig-veda.-The dawn.-End and endless. -Endless
in the Avesta.-Theogonic elements.-How the perception of

HISTORICAL TREATMENT OF RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS.

Is religion possible?-History and theory inseparable.-
Agnosticism.-Epicurean view of the gods.-Chance and pur-
pose; Darwin.-Atheism.-Intuitive knowledge of the gods.—

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

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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.

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-Hebraic.-Arabic.-Ethiopic

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Materials for the study of customs and laws.—Customs based
on religious ideas.-Customs generating religious ideas.-Sol-

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