Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Geetu Melwani, Thierry Alberto, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: This book had a number of typesetting errors such as missing text, pages, duplicate pages, and text. The text has been verified with the etext available with the Internet Archives (http://www.archive.org/details/germanwork01mulluoft) and corrected with the addition of missing text and removal of duplicate text. The Internet archive edition is a 1872 edition whereas this is a 1867 edition. Details of corrections and additions are given at the end of the book. CHIPS FROM A GERMAN WORKSHOP. BY MAX MÜLLER, M.A. FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD. VOLUME I. Essays on the Science of Religion. LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1867 * * * * * _To the Memory_ OF BARON BUNSEN, MY FRIEND AND BENEFACTOR. _et quanto diutius Abes, magis cupio tanto et magis desidero._ * * * * * PREFACE. More than twenty years have passed since my revered friend Bunsen called me one day into his library at Carlton House Terrace, and announced to me with beaming eyes that the publication of the Rig-veda was secure. He had spent many days in seeing the Directors of the East-India Company, and explaining to them the importance of this work, and the necessity of having it published in England. At last his efforts had been successful, the funds for printing my edition of the text and commentary of the Sacred Hymns of the Brahmans had been granted, and Bunsen was the first to announce to me the happy result of his literary diplomacy. 'Now,' he said, 'you have got a work for life--a large block that will take years to plane and polish.' 'But mind,' he added, 'let us have from time to time some chips from your workshop.'