Nearly every myth based on some great truth 405 Whence the Christian Sabbath 406 Antiquity of the Vedas 410 Pythagorean doctrine of the potentialities of numbers 417 “Days” of _Genesis_ and “Days” of Brahma 422 Fall of man and the Deluge in the Hindu books 425 Antiquity of the Mahâbhârata 429 Were the ancient Egyptians of the Aryan race? 434 Samuel, David, and Solomon mythical personages 439 Symbolism of Noah’s Ark 447 The Patriarchs identical with zodiacal signs 459 All Bible legends belong to universal history 469 CHAPTER X. THE DEVIL-MYTH. The devil officially recognized by the Church 477 Satan the mainstay of sacerdotalism 480 Identity of Satan with the Egyptian Typhon 483 His relation to serpent-worship 489 The Book of Job and the Book of the Dead 493 The Hindu devil a metaphysical abstraction 501 Satan and the Prince of Hell in the Gospel of Nicodemus 515 CHAPTER XI. COMPARATIVE RESULTS OF BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITY. The age of philosophy produced no atheists 530 The legends of three Saviours 537 Christian doctrine of the Atonement illogical 542 Cause of the failure of missionaries to convert Buddhists and Brahmanists 553 Neither Buddha nor Jesus left written records 559 The grandest mysteries of religion in the Bagaved-gita 562 The meaning of regeneration explained in the Satapa-Brâhmana 565 The sacrifice of blood interpreted 566 Demoralization of British India by Christian missionaries 573 The Bible less authenticated than any other sacred book 577 Knowledge of chemistry and physics displayed by Indian jugglers 583 CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.