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Title: Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I
Essays on the Science of Religion

Author: Friedrich Max Mueller

Release Date: February 26, 2008 [EBook #24686]

Language: English

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CHIPS

FROM A GERMAN WORKSHOP.

BY

MAX MUeLLER, M.A.

FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD.

VOLUME I.

Essays on the Science of Religion.

LONDON

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1867

* * * * *

_To the Memory_

OF

BARON BUNSEN,

MY FRIEND AND BENEFACTOR.

_et quanto diutius
Abes, magis cupio tanto et magis desidero._

* * * * *

PREFACE.

More than twenty years have passed since my revered friend Bunsen
called me one day into his library at Carlton House Terrace, and
announced to me with beaming eyes that the publication of the Rig-veda
was secure. He had spent many days in seeing the Directors of the
East-India Company, and explaining to them the importance of this
work, and the necessity of having