ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERN

A DISSERTATION UPON

WORSHIPS

LEGENDS AND DIVINITIES

ENTRAL AND

ESTERN

SIA

, E

UROPE

AND ELSEWHERE

BEFORE THE

HRISTIAN ERA

HOWING THEIR RELATIONS TO RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS AS THEY NOW EXIST

THOMAS INMAN, M.D. (London),

CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO THE ROYAL INFIRMARY, LIVERPOOL;LECTURER SUCCESSIVELY ON BOTANY, MEDICAL JURIPRUDENCE, MATERIA MEDICA WITHTHERAPEUTICS, AND THE PRINCIPLES WITH THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.LATE PRESIDENT OF THE LIVERPOOL LITERARY AND PHILOSOHICAL SOCIETY. AUTHOR OF “TREATISE ON MYALGIA;”“FOUNDATION FOR A NEW THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE;”“ON THE REAL NATURE OF INFLAMMATION,” “ATHEROMA IN ARTERIES,”“SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION,” “THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH,”“THE RESTORATION OF HEALTH,”“ANCIENT PAGAN AND MODERN CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM EXPOSED AND EXPLAINED,” AND ”ANCIENT FAITHS EMBODIED IN ANCIENT NAMES.”

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“Practising no evil, advancing in the exercise of every virtue, purifying oneself in mind and will; this is indeed the doctrine of all the Buddhas.”—

Journal of Royal Asiastic Society

, Vol. xix., p. 478.“Among the many wise sayings which antiquity ascribed to Pytha-goras, few are more remarkable than his division of virtue into two branches—to seek truth, and to do good.”—Lecky,

History of European Morals

, Vol. i., p. 54.

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