from reading the
originals and not vague accounts of them."

The sagacity of M. Saint Martin, who was for a long time the colleague
of M. Quatremere, has pointed out in a note worthy of his erudition,
another special proof, which is by no means to be neglected.

"Amongst the various arguments," he says, "that might be urged in favor
of the legitimacy of the monument, but of which, as yet, no use has
been made, must not be forgotten the name of the priest by whom it is
said to have been erected. The name _Yezd-bouzid_ is Persian, and at the
epoch when the monument was discovered it would have been impossible to
invent it, as there existed no work where it could have been found.
Indeed, I do not think that, even since then, there has ever been any
one published in which it could have been met with.

"It is a very celebrated name among the Armenians, and comes to them
from a martyr, a Persian by birth, and of the royal race, who perished
towards the middle of the seventh century, and rendered his name
illustrious amongst the Christian nations of the East." Saint Martin
adds in the same place, that the famous monument of Si-ngau-Fou, whose
authenticity has for a long time been called in question from the
hatred entertained against the Jesuit missionaries who discovered it,
rather than from a candid examination of its contents, is now regarded
as above all suspicion.

Chapter III.

Brahmanism.

Sec. 1. Our Knowledge of Brahmanism. Sir William Jones.
Sec. 2. Difficulty of this Study. The Complexity of the System. The Hindoos
have no History. Their Ultra-Spiritualism.
Sec. 3. Helps from Comparative Philology. The Aryans in Central Asia.
Sec. 4. The Aryans in India. The Native Races. The Vedic Age. Theology of
the Vedas.
Sec. 5. Second Period. Laws of Manu. The Brahmanic Age.
Sec. 6. The Three Hindoo Systems of Philosophy,--the Sankhya, Vedanta, and
Nyasa.
Sec. 7. Origin of the Hindoo Triad.
Sec. 8. The Epics, the Puranas, and Modern Hindoo Worship.
Sec. 9. Relation of Brahmanism to Christianity.

Sec. 1. Our Knowledge of Brahmanism. Sir William Jones.

It is more than forty years since the writer, then a boy, was one day
searching among the heavy works of a learned library in the country to
find some entertaining reading for a summer afternoon. It was a library
rich in theology, in Greek and L