_Plan of this Work.--The Intellectual History of Greece.--Its Five characteristic Ages.--European Intellectual History._
_Grandeur of the Doctrine that the World is governed by Law._ Page 1
ITS PRIMITIVE MODES OF THOUGHT, AND THEIR PROGRESSIVE VARIATIONS, MANIFESTED IN THE GREEK AGE OF CREDULITY.
_Description of Europe: its Topography, Meteorology, and secular Geological Movements.--Their Effect on its Inhabitants._
_Its Ethnology determined through its Vocabularies._
_Comparative Theology of Greece; the Stage of Sorcery, the Anthropocentric Stage.--Becomes connected with false Geography and Astronomy.--Heaven, the Earth, the Under World.--Origin, continuous Variation and Progress of Greek Theology.--It introduces Ionic Philosophy._
_Decline of Greek Theology, occasioned by the Advance of Geography and Philosophical Criticism.--Secession of Poets, Philosophers, Historians.--Abortive public Attempts to sustain it.--Duration of its Decline.--Its Fall._ 23
DIGRESSION ON HINDU THEOLOGY AND EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION.
_Comparative Theology of India; its Phase of Sorcery; its Anthropocentric Phase._
VEDAISM _the Contemplation of Matter, or Adoration of Nature, set forth in the Vedas and Institutes of Menu.--The Universe is God.--Transmutation of the World.--Doctrine of Emanation.--Transmigration.--Absorption.--Penitential Services.--Happiness in Absolute Quietude._
BUDDHISM _the Contemplation of Force.--The supreme impersonal Power.--Nature of the World--of Man.--The Passage of every thing to Nonentity.--Development of Buddhism into a vast monastic System marked by intense Selfishness.--Its practical Godlessness._
EGYPT _a mysterious Country to the old Europeans.--Its History, great public Works, and foreign Relations.--Antiquity of its Civilization and Art.--Its Philosophy, hieroglyphic Literature, and peculiar Agriculture._
_Rise of Civilization in rainless Countries.--Geography, Geology, and Topography of Egypt.--The Inundations of the Nile lead to Astronomy._
_Comparative Theology of Egypt.--Animal Worship, Star Worship.--Impersonation of Divine Attributes.--Pantheism.--The Trinities of Egypt.--Incarnation.--Redemption.--Future Judgment.--Trial of the Dead.--Rituals and Ceremonies._ 56