Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5: Miscellaneous Later EssaysMüller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Religion
Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5: Miscellaneous Later Essays
Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Comparative linguistics; Folklore; Literature -- History and criticism; Mythology; Religions
Dogmatic teaching, evil of, 31.
Donar, 120.
_Du Bois-Reymond_, quoted, 9.
Duhitar, a Sanskrit word for daughter, 17.
Dyaus, 121.
_Edkins_, Dr., quoted, 205.
Education, academic, 28;
elementary, 23;
scholastic, 24;
in the beginning purely dogmatic, 22;
compulsory, mark of a new era, 21;
dangers of compulsory, 22.
_Ellis_, quoted, 111 sq.
_Ellis_, A. J., quoted, 155 sq.
_Empedokles_, quoted, 56, 65.
English, society, intolerance of, 7.
-- universities described, 10;
too little of academic freedom in, 40.
-- names for the days of the week, 118.
-- written in hieroglyphics, 17 sq.
-- spelling, a national misfortune, 22.
-- present number of speaking, 138;
future number of speaking, 138.
_Epicharmos_, quoted, 55.
Esquimaux, tale among the, quoted, 83 sq.
Esthonian tale, quoted, 86 sq.
Examinations, good, to be rewarded by honor, 44;
a means to ascertain how pupils have been taught, 43;
strong feeling against, 42 sq.
_Fergusson_, Jas., quoted, 113 sq.
Figures, our, received from the Arabs, 20.
Forgeries in Sanskrit MSS., 109.
Freedom, address on, 1 sq.;
of thought, meaning of, 3.
Freethinkers, a title of honor, 6.
French, names for the days of the week, 118;
present number of speaking, 137;
future number of speaking, 138.
Freyja, day of, 120.
Friday, 120.
Genus and Species, meaning of, 32 sq.
German names for the days of the week, 119.
-- Middle-High, names for the days of the week, 119.
-- Old-High, names for the days of the week, 119.
-- present number of speaking, 138;
future number of speaking, 138.
-- Universities, how much time spent in lecturing in, 39.
Grammars, Latin and Greek, deficiencies of, 26.
Greek and Roman classics not read enough, 25.
Greek philosophy, its development chiefly due to the absence of an
established religion and influential priesthood, 63;
religion, national and traditional, 62.
_Gutzlaff_, quoted, 205.
_Haekel_, quoted, 182.
_Hall_, Newman, quoted, 154.
Helios, meaning of, 80.
_Helmholtz_, quoted, 7, 40.
_Herakleitos_, quoted, 58.
Heredity, meaning of, 14 sq.
_Herodotus_, quoted, 58.
_Herschel_, Sir John, quoted, 74 sq.
_Herzen_, quoted, 4.
_Hillebrand_, quoted, 9.
_Hipparchus_, a Greek astronomer, 19.
_Hobbes_, referred to, 3, 32.
_Holwell_, quoted, 102.
_Homer_, quoted, 71, 79;
condemned by Plato, 59;
his soul hanging in Hades on a tree, 58.
Hottentot fables quoted, 85 sq.
_Huet_, quoted, 99.
Indians of Nicaragua, quotation from a compendium of the theology of, 70.
Individualism, what? 4.
Individuality, principle of, suffering more now than before, 11.
Italian, present number of speaking, 137;
future number of speaking, 138.
_Jacolliott_, quoted and criticised, 123 sq.
Japan converted to Buddhism, legend about, 213.
Jehovah, name of, found in Chinese literature, 131, 132.
_Jones_, Sir. W., quoted, 100, 101 sq., 107 sq.
-- Eduard, quoted, 144 sq.
_Josephus_, quoted, 116 sq.
Jovis dies, 120.
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