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Confucius and the Chinese, or the Prose of Asia

• Peculiarities of Chinese Civilization
  
• Chinese Government based on Education. Civil-Service Examinations
• Life and Character of Confucius
• Philosophy and subsequent Development of Confucianism
• Lao-tse and Tao-ism
• Religious Character of the Kings
• Confucius and Christianity
• The Tae-ping Insurrection
• The Nestorian Inscription in China

Buddhism, or the Protestantism of the East

• Buddhism, in its Forms, resembles Romanism; in its Spirit, Protestantism
  
• Extent of Buddhism. Its Scriptures
• Sakya-muni, the Founder of Buddhism
• Leading Doctrines of Buddhism
• The Spirit of Buddhism Rational and Humane
• Buddhism as a Religion
• Karma and Nirvana
• Good and Evil of Buddhism
• Relation of Buddhism to Christianity

Zoroaster and the Zend Avesta

• Ruins of the Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis
  
• Greek Accounts of Zoroaster. Plutarch's Description of his Religion
• Anquetil du Perron and his Discovery of the Zend Avesta
• Epoch of Zoroaster. What do we know of him?
• Spirit of Zoroaster and of his Religion
• Character of the Zend Avesta
• Later Development of the System in the Bundehesch
• Relation of the Religion of the Zend Avesta to that of the Vedas
• Is Monotheism or pure Dualism the Doctrine of the Zend Avesta?
• Relation of this System to Christianity. The Kingdom of Heaven

The Gods of Egypt

• Antiquity and Extent of Egyptian Civilization
  
• Religious Character of the Egyptians. Their Ritual
• Theology of Egypt. Sources of our Knowledge concerning it
• Central Idea of Egyptian Theology and Religion. Animal Worship
• Sources of Egyptian Theology. Age of the Empire and Affinities of the Race
• The Three Orders of Gods
• Influence of Egypt on Judaism and Christianity

The Gods of Greece

• The Land and the Race
• Idea and General Character of Greek Religion
• The Gods of Greece before Homer
• The Gods of the Poets
• The Gods of the Artists
• The Gods of the Philosophers
• The Worship of Greece
• The Mysteries. Orphism
• Relation of Greek Religion to Christianity

The Religion of Rome

• Origin and essential Character of the Religion of Rome
  
• The Gods of Rome
• Worship and Ritual
• The Decay of the Roman Religion
• Relation of the Roman Religion to Christianity

The Teutonic and Scandinavian Religion

• The Land and the Race
  
• Idea of the Scandinavian Religion
• The Eddas and their Contents
• The Gods of Scandinavia
• Resemblance of the Scandinavian Mythology to that of Zoroaster
• Scandinavian Worship
• Social Character, Maritime Discoveries, and Political Institutions of the Scandinavians
• Relation of this System to Christianity

Christianity

• General Results of this Survey
  
• Christianity a Pleroma, or Fulness of Life
• Christianity, as a Pleroma, compared with Brahmanism, Confucianism, and Buddhism
• Christianity compared with the Avesta and the Eddas. The Duad in all Religions
• Christianity and the Religions of Egypt, Greece, and Rome
• The Fulness of Christianity is derived from the Life of Jesus
• Christianity as a Religion of Progress and of Universal Unity