Our Heritage of Thought- A Religious and Philosophical Study

About the Book This book is simply an earnest Endeavour to find out fact. It is published only for who have no time for individual research. The author offer to readers and scholars material for thought, from which each must deduce his own inferences and draw his own conclusions.

It is deals with Egyptian Thought; Babylonian Thought; Semitic thought -Assyrians, Phoenicians, Jewa; Hindu Thought-Rig-veda, Samkhya, Yoga, Vedanta, Buddhism, Bhagavad-Gita; Chinese Thought; Aryan Thought; Greek Thought-Homeric Poems, The Mysteries, Pythagoreanism, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism; Alexandrian Thought-Hellenistic Epoch, Philo Judaeus, Hermes Tris-megistus, Gnosticism, Essenism, Clemens Alexan drinus, Origen, Plotinus; Confusion of Thought; Thought in Western Europe Druidic thought, Mediaeval thought, Giordano Bruno, Spinoza, Kant; Recent Thought in Western Europe-Schopen hauer, Comte, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer; Abstract of the Inheritance.

Preface THIS book is simply an earnest Endeavour to find out facts: in writing it my one object was to clear my own mind, not to influence the minds of others. It is published only because friends assured me that the matter collected for my own use would be very helpful to others who have no time for individual research.

It will be seen that I advance no special theories. I merely offer to my readers material for thought, from which each must deduce his own inferences and draw his own conclusions.

The chief quotations are taken as follows, viz.: thus: from the Iliad from the prose translation of Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers; those from the Sacred Books of China from the translation by James Legged; those from the Ethics of Spinoza from the translation by R. Willis; those from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason from the translation by F. Max Muller; those from Schopenhauer's World as Will and Idea from the translation by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp; those from Comte's Positive Philosophy from the free translation of Harriet Martineau, of which Comte himself so highly approved.

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