Our Heritage of Thought- A Religious and Philosophical Study

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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.

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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