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Title: Two Old Faiths
Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans

Author: J. Murray Mitchell and William Muir

Release Date: November 4, 2005 [EBook #16996]

Language: English

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TWO OLD FAITHS

ESSAYS ON THE RELIGIONS OF THE HINDUS AND THE MOHAMMEDANS

BY

J. MURRAY MITCHELL, M.A., LL.D.

AND

SIR WILLIAM MUIR, LL.D., D.C.L.

NEW YORK CHAUTAUQUA PRESS C.L.S.C. Department, 150 Fifth Avenue 1891

The required books of the C.L.S.C. are recommended by a Council of
Six. It must, however, be understood that recommendation does not
involve an approval by the Council, or by any member of it, of
every principle or doctrine contained in the book recommended.

* * * * *

These essays have been selected from the admirable series of
_Present Day Tracts_, published by the Religious Tract Society,
London, and are reprinted with permission.

CONTENTS.

THE HINDU RELIGION. PAGE

Outline of the Essay 7

Introduction 9

The Vedas 12

Philosophy, and Ritualism 31

Reconstruction--Modern Hinduism 43

Contrast with Christianity 58

Hinduism in Contact with Christianity 68

THE RISE AND DECLINE OF ISLAM.

Outline of the Essay 83

Introduction