[252-1] W. von Humboldt, _Ideen zu einem Vorsuch, die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen_, Breslau, 1851. Auguste Comte, _Système de Politique Positive_, Paris, 1851-4. The former was written many years before its publication. [256-1] _Lectures on Metaphysics_, Vol. I., p. 23. [256-2] _The Koran_, Suras xi., xvi. [258-1] _The Myths of the New World_, Chap. IX. [259-1] Jacob Grimm quite overlooked this important element in the religion of the ancient Germans. It is ably set forth by Adolf Holtzmann, _Deutsche Mythologie_, s. 196 sqq. (Leipzig, 1874). [260-1] The seemingly heartless reply he made to one of his disciples, who asked permission to perform the funeral rites at his father’s grave: “Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead,” is an obvious condemnation of one of the most widespread superstitions of the ancient world. So, according to an ingenious suggestion of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, was the fifth commandment of Moses: “Ne parentum seriem tanquam primam aliquam causam suspicerent homines, et proinde cultum aliquem Divinum illis deferrent, qualem ex honore parentum sperare liceat benedictionem, docuit.” _De Veritate_, p. 231. Herbert Spencer in his _Essay on the Origin of Animal Worship_, calls ancestral worship “the universal first form of religious belief.” This is very far from correct, but it is easy to see how a hasty thinker would be led into the error by the prominence of the ancient funereal ceremonies. [262-1] Dhammapada, 21. [263-1] _La Vie Eternelle_, p. 339. [264-1] _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, Vol. I., ch. XV. [264-2] _Address to the Clergy_, p. 16. [267-1] “Toute religion, qu’on se permet de défendre comme une croyance qu’il est utile de laisser au peuple, ne peut plus espérer qu’une agonie plus ou moins prolongée.” Condorcet, _De l’Esprit Humain_, Ep. V. [274-1] _Romans_, ch. ix., v. 3. [274-2] “Beata quippe vita est gaudium de veritate.” Augustini _Confessionum_, Lib. x., caps. xxii., xxiii. [275-1] “Prudens amator non tam donum amantis considerat, quam dantis amorem. Nobilis amator non quiescit in dono, sed in me super omne donum.” _De Imitatione Christi_, Lib. iii., cap. vi. [277-1] _Fifteen Sermons_ by Joseph Butler, Lord Bishop of Durham. Sermon “On the love of God.” [277-2] _Unterhaltungen_, p. 131. INDICES. I. AUTHORS QUOTED. Allen, H., 208. Anaxagoras, 106. Arnold, M., 249, 271. Aristotle, 105. Augustine, St., 20, 57, 93, 128, 191, 194, 274. Bain, A., 9, 25, 52, 59, 87, 91, 244. Barlow, H. C., 201. Baxter, Richard, 60. Boehmer, H., 7. Boole, Geo., 24, 44, 104, 105, 108, 111. Bunsen, 109, 251. Butler, Bishop, 60, 119, 276. Carlyle, 243. Catlow, J. P., 14, 64. Chateaubriand, 250. Comte, A., 11, 39, 128, 187, 194, 252. Condorcet, 267. Cory, J. P., 191. Coulange, 245. Creuzer, 90, 106, 119, 127, 200, 212, 222. Cussans, 210. Dante, 93. Darwin, C., 71, 88. Dick, 266. Dickson, J. T., 73.