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INDEX.
335
Râg, Râgan, Sk., 106 note. Rahmat, 233. Rájah Bhagamán, 233. Rak'hí, custom of, 231. Rám, 227.
Chandra, 217. Rámáyan, Persian translation of,
under Akbar, 217. Râmâyana, 58. Rameses II, prayer of, 180. Rammohun Roy, 5. Rawlinson, Canon, on Eastern lan.
guage, 204 note. Red Indians, missionaries among
the, 195. -- pantheism of, 195. - name for God, 195. Red Sea, 242. Reformers' view of the word for God
in Chinese, 269, 270. Reiks, Goth., 106 note. Reindeer, Yakute name for, 136. Religion, 4. - comparative method applied to,
9, I2. - means two things, 13. - a faculty of faith, 12. - a body of doctrines, 12. - distinguishes man from animal,
12, 14. - language and nationality, 82.
influence of on nationality, 85. - law derived from, 88. - in early days, 89. - and language make a people, 85. - a sacred dialect, 90.
in China, 91. --three classes of, 91-94. -- everywhere, 94. - of Europeans is Semitic, 125. - three ancient centres of, 144. - and language, natural connection
between, 144. -- none without some grains of
truth, 151. - every religion true, 190. - intention of every is holy, 192. - of North American Indians, 194. - ancient, made up of metaphors,
196.
Religion, influenced by the flux and
reflux of human thought, 197. - dialectic life of, 201. - high and low dialects in the lan
guage of, 201. - always oscillating, 201, 202. - beginnings of, 250. Religions, comparative study of, a
necessity, 25. - classification of, 68. - true and false, 68. -- revealed and natural, 69. - national and individual, 79. - polytheistic, dualistic, and mono
theistic, 8o. - henotheistic, 81. - atheistic, 81.
and nations, 83. --- ancient, higher than art, poetry,
and philosophy, 150. - evils in all, 191. - early, often childish and irreve
rent, 192. - truth in all, 202. Religious sentiments essential to
human nature, 42. - concepts, growth of, 162. - disputations under Akbar, 220,
223
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Renan on Semitic monotheism, 93,
108. Revealed religion, 71, 72, 75. Revealed and natural religions, 69,
71, 74, 75. Revelation, all religions lay claim
to, 71. Rex, 106 note. Rhodes, worship of Moloch at, 117. Rig-Veda, 22, 57 - hymn of, 155. - hymns of various dates in the,
161. - antiquity of the, 161. - finished before the Brâhmana
period, 161. Riogh, Irish, ro6 note. Rodolpho, Aquaviva, Pádri Radalf,
229 note. Roger Williams, and the North
American Indians, 48 note, 195.
