The holders of this “no narrow creed” start with all the advantages from the mere point of view of dialectics. They can boast that they have placed the immortality of the soul on a scientific basis. For truly, it is more reasonable to suppose that the soul is natural than supernatural, a word invented to clothe our ignorance; and, if natural, why not universal? They have the right to say, moreover, that they and they alone have “justified the ways of God.” They alone have admitted all creation that groaneth and travaileth to the ultimate guerdon of the “Love which moves the sun and other stars.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INDEX ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abdâls, 261-262 Abu Djafar al Mausur, Caliph, 232 Abu Jail, 241-243 Achilles, 26-27, 298 Adi Granth, 201 _Æsop’s fables_, 25, 29-30, 80-81 Aethe, 26 Aethon, 26 Afghan ballad, 241-243 African pastoral tribes, 95 Agamemnon, 25-26, 29 Agassiz, 364 Agora Temple, 77 _Ahimsa_, 166-167, 172, 193 Ahriman, 124-126, 143, 145-146, 149-151, 158-159 Ahriman, hymn to, 125 Ahuna-Vairya, 138 Ahura Mazda, 116, 121-122, 136, 138-139, 143, 154, 158-159 Alberti, Leo Battista, 154, 158-159, 352 Albigenses, 346 Alexander the Great, 75, 133 Alfonso, King of Spain, 291-292 Alger, W. R., 286 Alhambra, 229 Al Rakîm, 230 Amatongo, 107-109 Amazulu, 107 _L’âme est la fonction du cerveau_, 357 Ammon, Temple of, 31 Amon Ra, 103 Amritsar, 201 Anaxandrides, 82 Anchorites, 179, 252-254 Andromache, 26 Animals, treatment of, in India, 19; the purgatory of men, 21; slaying of, by Greeks, 24-25; naming of, 26; prophetic powers of, 27-28; talking, 29; Roman treatment of, 45-46; butchery of, at Colosseum, 51; imported for arena, 51-52; humanity of, 53-54; performing, 54-55; Plutarch on kindness to, 64-71; Plutarch on animal intelligence, 67-71; instances of discrimination of, 75-76; domestication of, 90-91; value of, 94-95; excuses for killing, 100; attitude of savages to, 107-108; killing of, by priests, 148-150; Zoroastrian treatment of, 147-157; in sacred books, 188; Hebrew treatment of, 212-220; hunting of, by Moslems, 224-225, 232, 241-243; musical instinct in, 245-246; and the Messiah, 247-252; and saints, 259; stories of, 306-316; theory of Celsus as to intelligence of, 340-344; theory of Porphyry, 344; the Church and humanity, 346; animal prosecutions, 347-351; Renaissance admiration of, 352-353; animals and thought, 355; automata theory, 353-359, 365; societies to protect, 359-360; ill-treatment and immortality, 362; principle of evolution, 363 Antelope, 240 Ants, wisdom of, 76-77; killing of, 149-150; Hebrew proverb, 216; in the Koran, 227; social economy of, 341-342 Apis, 102, 144