INTRODUOTORY LEOTURE. THE HISTORICAL STUDY OF RELIGION. Die Weltgeschichte ist da.s Weltgericht. Die ®eUgefcf)i~te ift ba6 ®eItgericf)t-this is one of those pregnant sayings of Schiller"s which have a far wider application than we at first suspect. It is difficult to. translate these words literally, without depriving them of their idiomatic force. Literally translated they mean, "the history of the world is the judgment of the world." But in German, the judgment of the world means at the same time" the day of judgment," or " doom"s day." What Schiller meant therefore was that every day is a day of doom, that the history of the world, if comprehended as a whole, is the h"ue judgment of the world, and that we must learn to understand that judgment, and to accept it as right. If we adopt this view of Schiller"S, and learn to look upon the history of the world as an unbroken vindication of the highest wisdom, and of the most perfect justice which, in sp~te of Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ; • •; PAGE; PREFACE; INTRODUOTORY LEOTURE; THE HISTORICAL STUDY OF RELIGION; Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht-The Fundamental; Principle of the Historical School-History of Religion is the True; Philosophy of Religion-Natural Religion the Foundation of our; Belief in God-The Real Purpose of the Biography of AgniNatural; Revelation-The True Object of comparing the Christian; and other Religions-Ancient Prayers-Egyptian, Accadian,; Babylonian; Vedic, Avestic, G§thas, Chinese, Mohammedan,; Modern Hindu Prayers-Moses and the Shepherd-Advantages; v; of a Comparative Study of Religions 1-26; LEOTURE II; THE TRUE VALUE OF THE SACRED BOOKS EXAMINED; Historical Documents for Studying the Origin of ReligionReligious; Language-Literary Documents-Modern Date of; Sacred Books-Fragmentary Character of the Sacred Books of; XVlll T ABLE OF CONTENTS; PAGE; India-Loss of the Sacred Literature of Persia-The Relation; between the Aves