[Footnote 344: Professor Kuenen discovers a similar idea in the words placed in the mouth of Jehovah by the prophet Malachi, i. 14: "For I am a great King, and my name is feared among the heathen." "The reference," he says, "is distinctly to the adoration already offered to Yahweh by the people, whenever they serve their own gods with true reverence and honest zeal.(A1) Even in Deuteronomy the adoration of these other gods by the nations is represented as a dispensation of Yahweh. Malachi goes a step further, and accepts their worship as a tribute which in reality falls to Yahweh--to Him, the Only True. Thus the opposition between Yahweh and the other gods, and afterward between the one true God and the imaginary gods, makes room here for the still higher conception that the adoration of Yahweh is the essence and the truth of all religion." "Hibbert Lectures," p. 181. A1: There is, we believe, not the slightest authority for reading Malachi in this way; any reader of the Old Testament is competent to judge for himself.--AM. PUBS.] [Footnote 345: The author's enthusiasm has carried him beyond bounds. The weight to be given to Schopenhauer's opinion touching any religious subject may be measured by the following quotation: "The happiest moment of life is the completest forgetfulness of self in sleep, and the wretchedest is the most wakeful and conscious."--AM. PUBS.] [Footnote 346: "Sacred Books of the East," vol. i, "The Upanishads," translated by M. M.; Introduction, p. lxi.] * * * * * INDEX. A. ABBA Seen river, 192. ABRAIAMAN, 74. ABU FAZL, on the Hindus, 75. ACTIVE side of human nature in Europe, 120. ADITI, meaning of, 215. ÂDITYA, 158. ÂDITYAS, 215. ADROGHA, 83. AERIAL GODS, 168. AFGHANISTAN, 159; inhabitants of, 189. AGNI, god of fire, 167. AGNI-IGNIS, fire, 41; as a terrestrial deity, 195. AITAREYA BRÂHMANA, on heaven and earth, 175. ALEXANDER THE GREAT, 37; changes the name of a river, 191. ALL-SACRIFICE, the, 85. ALPHABET, the, whence derived, 86; Ionian and Phoenician, 222; two used in Asoka's inscription, 225. AMITÂBHA worship, 106. ANAXAGORAS, his doctrine, 177. ANCESTORS, spirits of, 238; worship of, 239. ANIMISM, 130. AURITA, 83. ARCHÆOLOGICAL survey of India, 26. ARRIAN, on the Hindus, 73; rivers known to, 191. ARYANS, the, our intellectual relatives, 33; seven branches of, 41; found in Sanskrit literature, 116; religion of, 161. ASMI, I am, 43. ASOKA, king, 96; adopts Buddhism, 106; author of the first inscriptions, 225; language of the same, 234. ASTRONOMY, ancient, in India, 114; in the Veda, 150; in China, 151. ÂTMAN, the Self, 265. AVATÂRAS of Vishnu, three, 153. B. BABYLONIAN division of time, 36; influences on Vedic poems, 145; on Vedic astronomy, 147; zodiac, 158. BARZÔI, 114. BASTIAN, on the Polynesian myths, 169. BENGAL, the people of, 55; villages of, 65; schools in, 80. BENGALI, 161.