A1: There is, we believe, not the slightest authority for reading Malachi in this way; any reader of the Old Testament is competent to judge for himself.--AM. PUBS.]
[Footnote 345: The author's enthusiasm has carried him beyond bounds. The weight to be given to Schopenhauer's opinion touching any religious subject may be measured by the following quotation: "The happiest moment of life is the completest forgetfulness of self in sleep, and the wretchedest is the most wakeful and conscious."--AM. PUBS.]
[Footnote 346: "Sacred Books of the East," vol. i, "The Upanishads," translated by M. M.; Introduction, p. lxi.]
ACTIVE side of human nature in Europe, 120.
AGNI-IGNIS, fire, 41; as a terrestrial deity, 195.
AITAREYA BRÂHMANA, on heaven and earth, 175.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT, 37; changes the name of a river, 191.
ALPHABET, the, whence derived, 86; Ionian and Phoenician, 222; two used in Asoka's inscription, 225.
ANCESTORS, spirits of, 238; worship of, 239.
ARRIAN, on the Hindus, 73; rivers known to, 191.
ARYANS, the, our intellectual relatives, 33; seven branches of, 41; found in Sanskrit literature, 116; religion of, 161.
ASOKA, king, 96; adopts Buddhism, 106; author of the first inscriptions, 225; language of the same, 234.
ASTRONOMY, ancient, in India, 114; in the Veda, 150; in China, 151.
BABYLONIAN division of time, 36; influences on Vedic poems, 145; on Vedic astronomy, 147; zodiac, 158.
BENGAL, the people of, 55; villages of, 65; schools in, 80.
BIBLE, the, Sanskrit words in, 28; and the Jewish race, 140.
BOOKS read by ancient nations compared with modern, 137.
BRÂHMANAS, on truth, 84; as a class, 256.
BUDDHISM, chief source of our fables, 27; striking coincidences with Christianity, 108; its rise, 234.
CÆSAR, on the Druids and their memorizing, 233.
CARLYLE, his opinion of historical works, 16.
CASTE, origin of, 117; in the laws of Manu, 117; in the Rig-Veda, 117.
CAT, the domestic, its original home, 42.
CHINA, origin of the name, 151; chronicles of, 104; lunar stations of, 150; aspects of religion, 264.
CHRISTIAN religion, the, and the Jewish race, 35.
CLIMATIC influences on morals and social life, 120.
COMMERCE between India and Syria in Solomon's time, 28.
COULANGES, Professor, his opinion on religious beliefs, 245.