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FOREWORD
THE following lectures do not pretend to be anything more than popular expositions of four great faiths, and are intended for ordinary reader rather than for the student. Delivered to audiences composed almost entirely of Hindus, with only a sprinkling of Zoroastrians and Christians, they rather take for granted a knowledge of Sanskrit terms; so notes have been added where obscurity might arise from their use. They are intended to help members of each of the religions to recognize the value and beauty of faiths which are not their own, and demonstrate their underlying unity. In the lecture on Buddhism I had
This refers to a series of lectures by Dr Besant on the great religions, each of which is published separately with a common foreword.
