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
_Julien_, St., quoted, 132.
Jupiter, the name, no mere accident, 90 sq.;
the thunderer, 120.
Justin Martyr, quoted, 117.
Karman, meaning of, 15 sq.
Knowledge, dead, dangerous, 28.
Kû-fa-lan, works ascribed to him, 194.
Kukai, founder of a sect in Japan, 214.
Language and thought inseparable, 67;
its influence on thought, 79.
Lapland, legend of, quoted, 88.
Latin names for the days of the week, 118.
Mars, the god of war, 121.
_Meiklejohn_, quoted, 147.
Mercurii dies, 119, 121.
_Metrodorus_, quoted, 56.
_Mill_, J. S., quoted, 1, 12, 21;
his plea for liberty decried, 4, without reason, 5;
his election to Parliament a triumph, 6.
_Milligan_, quoted, 76.
_Montucci_, quoted, 130.
Mosaic account of creation found among the Tahitians, 111.
Müller’s, M., rejoinder to Prof. Blackie, 91 sq.
Mythology, meaning of, 55, 64 sq., 66;
interest of, in our days, 53;
religion of the Greeks, 61;
now as there was in time of Homer, 65;
pervades the sphere of religion and of thought, 69;
philosophy of, lecture on, 53 sq.
Names to be submitted to very careful snuffing, 37.
Nihilism, defined, 4; dangers of, 5.
Nirvana, definition of, 16.
Nominalism, higher, or Science of Language, 37.
Odin, 120, 121, 122.
Old-Norse names for the days of the week, 118.
Omniscience to be avoided, 47.
Oriental tongue, now spoken in Europe, 16 sq.
Over-examinations, complaints against, 46.
Paradise. See Sukhavati.
Phoibos, meaning of, 81;
and Daphne, story of, 81 sq.
Phonetic alphabet, table of, 150;
reading according to, 151 sq.
Pioneer (an Indian paper), quoted, 113.
Planets, their names, 118;
used for the names of the days of the week, 116.
_Plato_, quoted, 59 sq., 79.
Population, table of supposed number of years required for doubling the,
in different countries, 138.
Portuguese, number of speaking, 137.
Power and Responsibility of English Universities, 10.
Psyche, meaning of, 69, 72.
Public opinion, 11, 12.
Religions, division of, 62.
_Remusat_ quoted, 131.
Russian, number of speaking, 138;
society described, 4.
Sabbath mentioned by Roman and Greek writers, 117 sq.
Sanskrit names for the days of the week, 118.
-- MSS., materials on which they were written, 206 sq.;
searched for in China, 203 sq.;
in Japan, 210;
texts discovered in Japan, 181 sq.;
translated by Chinese, 189 sq.
Saturni dies, 116 sq., 121.
Scandinavian mythology and Buddhism, connection between, 113 sq., 122.
Schools in England and on the Continent, shortcomings of, 25 sq.
Self-government, dangers of, 10.
Semiphonotopy, name for a style of spelling, 141;
reading according to, 191 sq.
_Sextus Empiricus_, quoted, 58.
Snow, name for, 77.
Society, human, secret of, 13.
_Sokrates_, quoted, 56.
Sokratic method, 24.
Spanish, present number of speaking, 137;
future number of speaking, 138.
_Species_ and _Genus_, meaning of, 32 sq.
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