V.

Valentine, St., formerly the Scandina-
vian god Vila, 399.

Valhalla, the Scandinavian Paradise,
390.

Vasudeva, a name of Crishna, 114.
Vedas, the, antiquity of, 450.
Vedic Poems, the, show the origin and
growth of Greek and Teutonic my-
thology, 468.

Venus, the Dove was sacred to the god-
dess, 357.

Vernal equinox, the, festivals held at the
time of, by the nations of antiqnity,
392.
Vespasian, the Miracles of, 268, 269.
Vestal Virgins, the, were bound by a
solemn vow to preserve their chasti-
ty for a space of thirty years, 403.
Vicar of God on Earth, the Grand La-
ma of the Tartars considered to be
the, 118.

Vila, the god, of the Scandinavians,

changed to St. Valentine, 399.
Virgin, the worship of a, before the
Christian era, 326.

Virgo, the, of the Zodiac personified as
a Virgin Mother.

Vishnu, appeared as a fish, at the time
of the Deluge, 25; the mediating or
preserving God in the Hindoo Trini-
ty, 369.

Votan, of Guatemala, 130.
Votive offerings, given by the Heathen
to their gods, and now practiced by
the Christians, 258, 259.
Vows of Chastity, taken by the males
and females who entered Pagan mo-
nasteries, 402, 403.

W.

War in Heaven, the, believed in by the
principal nations of antiquity, 368.
Wasi, the priest and law-giver of the
Cherokees, 130.

Water, purification from sin by, a Pa-
gan ceremony, 317-323.
Wednesday, Woden's or Odin's day,
393.

Welsh, the, as late as the seventeenth
century, during eclipses, ran about
beating kettles and pans, 536.

West, the sun-gods die in the, 498.
Wisdom, Ganesa the god of, 117.
Wise Men, worshiped the infant Jesus,
150; worshiped the infant Crishna,
151; worshiped the infant Buddha,
151; and others, 151, 152.
Witloba, the god, crucified, 185.
Wodin, or Odin, the supreme god of
the Scandinavians, 393.

Wolf, the, an emblem of the Destroy-
ing power, 80.

Word, or Logos, the, of John's Gospel,
of Pagan origin, 374.

World, the, destroy by a deluge, when-
ever all the planets met in the sign
of Capricorn, 103.

X

Xaca, born of a Virgin, 119.
Xelhua, one of the seven giants rescued
from the flood, 37.

Xerxes, the god of, is the devil of to-

day, 391; the Zend-avesta older than
the inscriptions of, 452.
Xisuthrus, the deluge happened in the
days of, 22; was the tenth King of
the Chaldeans, 23; had three sons,
23; was translated to heaven, 90.
X-P, the, was formerly a monogram of
the Egyptian Saviour Osiris, but now
the monogram of Christ Jesus, 350.

Y.

Yadu, Vishna became incarnate in the
House of, 113.

Yao, or Jao, a sacred name, 49.
Yan-hwuy, the favorite disciples of
Confucius, 121.

Yar, the angel, borrowed from Chal
dean sources, 109.

Yen-she, the mother of Confucius, 121.
Y-ha-ho, a name esteemed sacred among
the Egyptians, 48; the same as Jeho-
vah, 48.

Yezua, the name Jesus is pronounced
in Hebrew, 196.

Yoni, the, attached to the head of the
crucified Crishna, 185; symbolized
nature, 496.

Yoser, the term (Creator) first brought
into use by the prophets of the Cap-
tivity, 99.

Yu, a virgin-born Chinese sage, 120.
Yucatan, the Mayas of, worshiped a
virgin-born god, 130; crosses found
in, 201.

Yule, the old name for Christmas, 365.
Yumna, the river, divided by Crishna,

57.

Z.

Zama, the only-begotton Son of the Su-
preme God, according to the Mayas
of Yucatan, 130.
Zarathrustra (see Zoroaster).
Zend-Avesta, the sacred writings of the
Parsees, 7; signifies the "Living
Word;" 59; older than the cuneiform
inscriptions of Cyrus, 452.
Zephyrinus, the truth corrupted by,
135.

Zeru-akerene, the Supreme God of the
Persians, 245.

Zeru-babel, supposed to be the Messiah,
432.

Zeu-pater, the Dyans-pitar of Asia, be-
came the, of the Greeks, 477.
Zeus, the Supreme God of the Greeks,
477; visited Danae in a golden show-
er, 481.

Zome, a supernatural being worshiped
in Brazil, 130.

Zoroaster, the Law-giver of the Per-
sians, 59; receives the "Book of the
Law" from Ormuzd, 59; the Son of
Ormuzd, 123; a dangerous child,
169; a "Divine Messenger," 194; the
"First-born of the Eternal One,"
195; performed miracles, 256; the
religion of the Persians established
by, 451.

A VERY critical analysis of both Protestantism and Catholicism, from the vantage ground of an intimate personal experience with the two systems. The writer, it appears, is determined to nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice. His anal ysis of the Protestant principle will be new to some Protestants, as will his philosophy of Catholicism to many Catholics. Besides the very interesting Memoir which is the main part of the book, it contains notes, parts of correspondence, and an essay or two; all partaking of the analytical and deeply earnest spirit which ap pears in it from the first. The plan of the work is strikingly original, its pur port is set forth in the tersest and clearest language, and the manifest sincerity with which the whole is writ ten will commend it to readers of many various shades of opinion. The work is very argumentative, with touches of liveliness here and there, which serve to relieve the general gravity of its strain. It has the merit throughout of being free from coarseness and jibing; while it deals the most trenchant blows which pure logic is capable of inflicting.

EXTRACTS.

I ASK you, would Absolute Goodness create with active poison-working elements for any end?....Was God under compulsion to create man so? No: he was free, you say, to create or not to create; but man could not have been made otherwise compatibly with free will in the creature. Then it would seem creation should not have taken place, or free will should been left out of the plan rather than evil accepted for its sake. What necessary Moloch is this Free Will, that is higher than goodness, better than happiness, and so mysteriously precious that evil must be adopted as a means to secure it, and goodness and

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happiness offered a divine sacrifice to it? This known world of ours so abounds in moral foulness, as well as in physical suffering of manifestly impeccable beings, such as little infants and irrational animals, that it negatives from the first your anthropomorphic theory of Creation and Providence; which is an apotheosis of human imperfection.

AN unverifiable hypothesis of a reformed Providence, which, however agreeable it may be to the fancy, has no support in sober reason: If the rule of Providence in the present life be one of injustice, there is no reason to believe that a future life under the same Providence will be differently ordered, so as to be just and happy and if the order of the present life be right, there can be no need of a future life as a scene of reparation. Our wish to be rid of what is bad and painful, and secured in what is good and pleasant, of course does not affect the argument. The existence of a wish does not imply that it will ever be gratified.

and silent in the presence of the InTHE true philosopher is reverent comprehensible. The green world of sense and knowledge where he finds himself placed furnishes employment to all his faculties. He does not deny supernal spheres: he only refuses to make or to bow down to assertions for which he sees no sufficient foundation. Here he finds the appropriate sphere of his activity: of what is beyond he confesses himself ignorant. The supernaturalist of course knows no more of the beyond than he, but is afflicted with what Socrates called the worst kind of ignorance: the conceit of knowing what one does not know. Prate as men may, the Mystery is there: as deep as ever when the Bible is opened; as dark as ever when the Church has lighted her wax candles.

CONTENTS:

Under the head of "War," we have: Egypt, The Water Harvest, The Sources of the Nile, Philosophy of Leisure, Agricultural Monogamy, Inequality of Men, Famine the Mother of Astronomy, Cruelty the Nurse of Civilization, Trial of the Dead, the Painted Tomb, Children of the Desert, The Horse of War, The Terrible Sahara, Pharaoh Triumphant, Egyptian Country House, The Luxury Question, Theology Stops the Way, Empire of Ethiopia, The India Trade, The Persian Shepherds, The King's Harem, Origin of Greek Genius, Their Religion, The City of the Violet Crown, The University of Egypt, Seraglio Intrigue, Retreat of the Ten Thousand, Tyranny of Athens, Alexander at Babylon, Two Faces Under One Hat, A Greek Voltaire, The Purple Trade, Discovery of the Atlantic, Introduction of the "A, B, C," The Colonies of Carthage, The Gardens of the Hesperides, Home Rule of Rome, The House of Baal, Silver Spain, The Poor Hated Old Man, Roman Baden Baden, Cato's Little Farm, A Dissolute Prig, Africa's Place in History, Čivilizing War.

Under the head of "Religion": Ghost Worship, Divine Hybrids, Idolatry and Dollatry, Who Made God? Nature in the Nude, The Sheik Abraham, Moses in Exile, The Delphi of the Hebrews, Pope Samuel, A God-intoxicated Man, A Pious Brigand, By the Waters of Babylon, Character of Jehovah, Character Improves, Origin of the Devil, A Monopolized Deity, Bright Side of the Character of Jesus, Dark Side, The Miracle Doctor, The Ghetto, Rome Sleeping, Heavenly Illusions, Episcopal Saliva, The Wonderful Well, The Truce of God, Achieve ments of Mahomet, Negro States, The African Hut, Dance Ordeal, School, Philosophy of Salt, Bagdad of the West, Negroes in Mecca, The Black Prophet, Turks in Africa.

Under the consideration of "Liberty," he shows us: The Ancient Germans, The Castle an Academy, The Serfs, The Monks, The Crusades, Venice, Arab Spain, The Hill of Tears, Orthodox Geography, India, Prester John, Lisbon Rejoices, Majestic Crime, Slavery in London, The Methodists, Giants and Pigmies, Thomas Paine, Cotton, Neck and Neck, W. L. Garrison, Rebellion of the North, The Lost Cause, Future of Africa, Future of the Earth, Origin of Man, Tailed Minds.

In the consideration of "Intellect" he introduces: The Children of the Sun, Origin of Life, History of the Cell, Dawn of Reason, Origin of Love, The Ghost Religion, Origin of Priests, Invention of Hell, Musical Conversation, The Why, The Utility of the Affections, Breeding Laws, Death of Sin, Origin of Chastity, Rome and China, The Buddhists, The Age of the Ro'sary, War in the Future, The Expedient of Religion, Fallacies of the Commune, American Prosperity, Inventions of the Future, Theory of the Soul, Duties of a Creator, The Theory Ex

ploded, Should the Truth be Told? Christianity Exposed, The Catastrophes of Progress, Moral Value of Hell-Fire, True Sources of Morality, Spurious Virtues of Theology, The True Religion, The Last Sacrifice."

EXTRACT:

The good in this world predominates over the bad; the good is ever increasing, the bad is ever diminishing. But, if God is Love, why is in which the villains are put in to make it more there any bad at all? Is the world like a novel, dramatic, and in which virtue only triumphs in the third volume? It is certain that the feelings of the created have in no way been considered. If, indeed, there were a judgment-day, it would be for man to appear at the bar, not as a criminal, but as an accuser. What has he done that he should be subjected to a life of torture and temptation? God might have made us all happy, and he has made us miserable. Is that benevolence? God might have made us all pure, and he has made us all sinful. Is that the perfection of morality? It I believed in this man-created God, in this divine Nebuchadnezzar, I would say, You can make me live in your world, O Creator, but you cannot make me admire it; you can load me with chains, but you cannot make me flatter you; you can send me to hell-fire, but you cannot obtain my esteem. And if you condemn me, you condemn yourself. If I have committed sins, you invented them, which is worse. If the watch you have made does not go well, whose fault is that? Is it rational to damn the wheels and the springs?

PRESS NOTICES:

It is really a remarkable book, in which universal history is "boiled down" with surprising skill. .. The boldest, and, so far as historical argument goes, one of the ablest, assaults ever made upon Christianity.-[Literary World.

His history has a continuity, a rush, a carrying power, which remind us strikingly of Gib

bon.-[New Haven Palladium.

The sketch of early Egyptian history, in the first chapter, is a masterpiece of historical writing. He has a style that reminds us of Macaulay.-[Penn Monthly.

You turn over his pages with a fascination similar to that experienced in reading Washington Irving. [Inter-Ocean.

To readers who are attracted by the Darwinian literature, this book, with its quaint declaration that "Life is bottled sunshine," may also be recommended.-[Pittsburgh Eve. Chronicle.

Whoever would be jostled into attention, and led into unwonted channels of thought, will find this volume full of interest and often of delight. -[New Covenant.