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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, or attempt. It is an attempt to compare the great religions of the world with each other. When completed, this comparison ought to show what each is, what it contains, wherein it resembles the others, wherein it differs from the others; its origin and development, its place in universal history; its positive and negative qualities, its truths and errors, and its influence, past, present, or future, on the welfare of mankind. For everything