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Prolegomena

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

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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

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CHAPTER II

A witch hunt at Washington-Yellow Springs, Ohio - Cincinnati

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

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

aging southward - Flying fish and sunfish

speare-Baconism-Honolulu Sabbath

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Delia Bacon -Shake-

Captain Cook - Legends

New Zealand-Dr. Richard Garnett-Pearl-divers

Utopia

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CHAPTER IV

The Melbourne Cup - Joss House-Sects in Victoria - Governor of

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

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.

97-107

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-

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

female priests — English masqueraders — Bishop McIlvaine and

Bishop Temple

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108-142

CHAPTER VII

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

quet - Devil-dances - Sinhalese demonology-Entertainment in

the palace of Mutu Kumara Swamy - The Nautch dancers -

Martyr of Truth" (Harischandra) — Wagnerite music

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CHAPTER VIII

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Arabi in Exile - 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

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CHAPTER IX

162-173

Madras - Temple dancers — Talk with students - Juggenauth - St.

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

coveries concerning Thomas-Pain and piety - A Jain parable

- Good will to man

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- A Buddhist carol

174-194

CONTENTS

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 .

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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-

errors about "idols "— A dream interview with Kali

CHAPTER XII

Christian

215-247

Exploring Bengal - A conference of religions - Moslem Christianity

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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

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

277-301

CHAPTER XIV

Ganges immersions- A Chris-

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)

Indian sects-Faults of English colonists-Samuel Laing, M. P.,

"A Modern Zoroastrian "- The ideal Jain temple

CHAPTER XVI

317-342

Homeward - The Flying Dutchman Our Lady of the Peking'

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- A letter of John Bright—" Chinese Gordon "in the Soudan and

in Palestine Pilgrimage to the Krupp Gun Works at Essen, Ger-

many — Address at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania .

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343-350

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MONCURE D. CONWAY (photogravure)

Frontispiece

LETTER OF R. G. INGERSOLL

WASKADUWE SUBHUTI, A LEARNED BUDDHIST AUTHOR

SUMANGALA, PRIEST OF ADAM'S PEAK

BUDDHIST PRIESTS OF CEYLON

HON. P. RAMANATHAN, SOLICITOR-GENERAL OF CEYLON