BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1906

Prolegomena

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I

The Cult of Patriotism-Robert G. Ingersoll-A black mark on the

Declaration of Independence - Pilgrimages to Virginia — The ori-

ginal aborigines - The first church in North America - Cruelties

of colonization-Christmas reunions of revolutionary veterans

A Song of Seventy-six-Mary Washington-Seamy side of the

Revolution

15-36

CHAPTER II

Cincinnati

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A witch hunt at Washington-Yellow Springs, Ohio

Judge Hoadly-Journey to Salt Lake City-John W. Young —

Mormonism and human nature - Elder Penrose as a preacher ·

Mormon wives and Mormon husbands-The fate of repudiated

wives

37-46

CHAPTER III

San Francisco-Red Cross Knights - Chinese Joss and theatre-Voy-

aging southward - Flying fish and sunfish - Delia Bacon - Shake-

speare-Baconism - Honolulu Sabbath - Captain Cook - Legends

- Rev. Titus Coan Samoans - Phenomena

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Pele-Jehovah

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New Zealand-Dr. Richard Garnett-Pearl-divers- Our floating

Utopia

47-69

CHAPTER IV

Governor of

The Melbourne Cup - Joss House Sects in Victoria

Victoria-Bishop of Melbourne - Rev. Charles Strong - Austra-

lian insanity - Ballarat gold mines-Hon. Peter Lalor - Hon. A.

Inglis Clark-Hobart - Campbellites - Nature's oddities - Relics

of transportation times - Extinction of Tasmanians - My ordeal in

Sydney - Impaled with Bishop Moorhouse and Rev. Charles Strong

-Fusion of Freethought and Spiritualism - The Botany Bay myth

- Justice Windeyer .

70-96

CHAPTER V

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Colonial Chauvinism - King George's Sound Weird coast names-

Australian aborigines - An uncivilizable maiden - Dangers of fed-

eration - Krakatoan lava-Voltaire and Wesley on the Lisbon

earthquake.

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CHAPTER VI

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Ceylon-Plain living and high thinking — Talks with the Buddhist

Perera - Origin of Whittington's cat- "Rodyas"-A Sinhalese

law court-Judge Arunáchalam and his wife at Kattura-A ram-

ble with Sinhalese gentlemen - My Buddhist plea for a suffering

snake-Hindu shrines in Buddhist temples -The learned priest

Subhuti Sinhalese homes A Moslem on Heber's verse about

Ceylon - Temple at Khandy - A Moslem sermon- - Kellania-

Buddhist folk-tales-" Merits ". Nirvana-My Christmas lec-

ture at Colombo-High priest of Adam's Peak- Conferences with

Buddhists in their college - An unpublished Pitaka- -"Covetous-

Of actions at once right and sinful - The extinct order of

female priests-English masqueraders - Bishop McIlvaine and

Bishop Temple

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CHAPTER VII

quet

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New Year's eve in Cinnamon Gardens - Hon. P. Ramanathan's ban-

Devil-dances-Sinhalese demonology - Entertainment in

the palace of Mutu Kumara Swamy - The Nautch dancers The

Martyr of Truth" (Harischandra) — Wagnerite music

- Relations between Egyptians and English in Colombo

- Arabi's Mohammedan Christianity - Adam's Peak and Ararat

How Arabi's life was saved-The English defenders of Arabi -

Arabi's situation at seventy-Conjurers - The giant turtle of

Colombo - The heart and life of Buddhism in Ceylon

CHAPTER IX

Madras - Temple dancers - Talk with students

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162-173

Juggenauth - St.

Thomé-A Portuguese Thomas - Legend of Savatri- New Dis-

coveries concerning Thomas-Pain and piety—A Jain parable

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CHAPTER X

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Adyar - Mme. Blavatsky and her confession - The Theosophists —

An American receiving the Buddhist pansala - The attempted

fraud on the Broughtons — Letter of Commissioner Broughton —

- Origin of Koothoomi - Revelations of Mme. Coulomb .

CHAPTER XI

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195-214

Calcutta-Keshub Chunder Sen and his death-Jogendra Chandra

Ghosh and Positivism - Mozoomdar and Dr. Tyndall - Exposition

- Holy pictures - Miracle plays and Hindu theatres - Kalighat

festival Sir William Hunter- A learned fakir -Kali-Salva-

tion Army-Entertainment by Prince Furrok Shah-Christian

errors about "idols "— A dream interview with Kali

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CHAPTER XII

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Exploring Bengal - A conference of religions-Moslem Christianity

– Dr. Rájendralála Mitra on Christian polytheism — Hon. Syed

Ameer Ali - Dr. Ananda Cumara Swamy - The marvellous dolls

— Maharajah Sir Jotendra Mohun Tajore — The demonized Buddha

-Buddha-Gaya Root of Buddha's Bo-tree-Letter from Dr.

Mitra-Buddhist-Hindu-philosophy - Benares-Monkey Temple

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- Deer Park and legend of the Mango Girl - "The Toy-Cart".

Our Western Buddha

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248-276

CHAPTER XIII

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Delhi palaces - Pillar of Asôka — The Minar Pillar-Purana Keela

The Taj at Agra - Akbar -The Parliament of Religions-

Oriental ethics - The Jehanara mosque

tian-Brahman debate-Relic of cobra-worship - River deities

Christian and Brahman doctrines of sacrifice

Bombay-Alexander Agassiz-Missionaries-England in India —

"The Old Missionary" - Nelacantah Goreh-Professor Peterson

-Hindu hymn-A drive with Judge West- Shankuran Pandit

-The Towers of Silence - Zoroastrianism - The zenana — Ra-

mabai-Keshub Chunder Sen and his monument - Bhakti (faith)

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