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Karma and Nirvana § 8. Good and Evil of Buddhism § 9. Relation
of Buddhism to Christianity
Chapter V.
Zoroaster and the Zend Avesta.
§ 1. Ruins of the Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis § 2. Greek Accounts of
Zoroaster. Plutarch's Description of his Religion § 3. Anquetil du
Perron and his Discovery of the Zend Avesta § 4. Epoch of Zoroaster.
What do we know of him? § 5. Spirit of Zoroaster and of his Religion §
6. Character of the Zend Avesta § 7. Later Development of the System
in the Bundehesch § 8. Relation of the Religion of the Zend Avesta to
that of the Vedas § 9. Is Monotheism or pure Dualism the Doctrine of
the Zend Avesta § 10. Relation of this System to Christianity. The

Kingdom of Heaven
Chapter VI.
The Gods of Egypt.
§ 1. Antiquity and Extent of Egyptian Civilization § 2. Religious
Character of the Egyptians. Their Ritual § 3. Theology of Egypt.
Sources of our Knowledge concerning it § 4. Central Idea of Egyptian
Theology and Religion. Animal Worship § 5. Sources of Egyptian
Theology. Age of the Empire and Affinities of the Race § 6. The Three
Orders of Gods § 7. Influence upon Judaism and Christianity
Chapter VII.
The Gods Of Greece.
§ 1. The Land and the Race § 2. Idea and general Character of Greek
Religion § 3. The Gods of Greece before Homer § 4. The Gods of the
Poets § 5. The Gods of the Artists § 6. The Gods of the Philosophers §
7. Worship of Greece § 8. The Mysteries. Orphism § 9. Relation of
Greek Religion to Christianity
Chapter VIII.
The Religion of Rome.
§ 1. Origin and essential Character of the Religion of Rome § 2. The
Gods of Rome § 3. Worship and Ritual § 4. The Decay of the Roman
Religion § 5. Relation of the Roman Religion to Christianity
Chapter IX.
The Teutonic and Scandinavian Religion.
§ 1. The Land and the Race § 2. Idea of the Scandinavian Religion § 3.
The Eddas and their Contents § 4. The Gods of Scandinavia § 5.
Resemblance of the Scandinavian Mythology to that of Zoroaster § 6.

Scandinavian Worship § 7. Social Character, Maritime Discoveries,
and Political Institutions of the Scandinavians § 8. Relation of this
System to Christianity
Chapter X.
The Jewish Religion.
§ 1. Palestine, and the Semitic Races § 2. Abraham; or, Judaism as the
Family Worship of a Supreme Being § 3. Moses; or, Judaism as the
national Worship of a just and holy King § 4. David; or, Judaism as the
personal Worship of a Father and Friend § 5. Solomon; or, the
Religious Relapse § 6. The Prophets; or, Judaism as a Hope of a
spiritual and universal Kingdom of God § 7. Judaism as a Preparation
for Christianity
Chapter XI.
Mohammed and Islam.
§ 1. Recent Works on the Life of Mohammed § 2. The Arabs and
Arabia § 3. Early Life of Mohammed, to the Hegira § 4. Change in the
Character of Mohammed after the Hegira § 5. Religious Doctrines and
Practices among the Mohammedans § 6. The Criticism of Mr. Palgrave
on Mohammedan Theology § 7. Mohammedanism a Relapse; the worst
Form of Monotheism, and a retarding Element in Civilization Note
Chapter XII.
The Ten Religions and Christianity.
§ 1. General Results of this Survey § 2. Christianity a Pleroma, or
Fulness of Life § 3. Christianity, as a Pleroma, compared with
Brahmanism, Confucianism, and Buddhism § 4. Christianity compared
with the Avesta and the Eddas. The Duad in all Religions § 5.
Christianity and the Religions of Egypt, Greece, and Rome § 6.
Christianity in Relation to Judaism and Mohammedanism. The Monad

in all Religions § 7. The Fulness of Christianity is derived from the Life
of Jesus § 8. Christianity as a Religion of Progress and of universal
Unity

Ten Great Religions.
Chapter I.
Introduction.--Ethnic and Catholic Religions.
§ 1. Object of the present Work. § 2. Comparative Theology; its Nature,
Value, and present Position. § 3. Ethnic Religions. Injustice often done
to them by Christian Apologists. § 4. How Ethnic Religions were
regarded by Christ and his Apostles. § 5. Comparative Theology will
furnish a new Class of Evidences in Support of Christianity. § 6. It will
show that, while most of the Religions of the World are Ethnic, or the
Religions of Races, Christianity is Catholic, or adapted to become the
Religion of all Races. § 7. It will show that Ethnic Religions are Partial,
Christianity Universal. § 8. It will show that Ethnic Religions are
arrested, but that Christianity is steadily progressive.

§ 1. Object of the present Work.
The present work is what the Germans call a Versuch, and the English
an Essay,