196 sqq. (Leipzig, 1874).

[260-1] The seemingly heartless reply he made to one of his disciples,
who asked permission to perform the funeral rites at his father's grave:
"Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead," is an obvious
condemnation of one of the most widespread superstitions of the ancient
world. So, according to an ingenious suggestion of Lord Herbert of
Cherbury, was the fifth commandment of Moses: "Ne parentum seriem
tanquam primam aliquam causam suspicerent homines, et proinde cultum
aliquem Divinum illis deferrent, qualem ex honore parentum sperare
liceat benedictionem, docuit." _De Veritate_, p. 231.

Herbert Spencer in his _Essay on the Origin of Animal Worship_, calls
ancestral worship "the universal first form of religious belief." This
is very far from correct, but it is easy to see how a hasty thinker
would be led into the error by the prominence of the ancient funereal
ceremonies.

[262-1] Dhammapada, 21.

[263-1] _La Vie Eternelle_, p. 339.

[264-1] _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, Vol. I., ch. XV.

[264-2] _Address to the Clergy_, p. 16.

[267-1] "Toute religion, qu'on se permet de defendre comme une croyance
qu'il est utile de laisser au peuple, ne peut plus esperer qu'une agonie
plus ou moins prolongee." Condorcet, _De l'Esprit Humain_, Ep. V.

[274-1] _Romans_, ch. ix., v. 3.

[274-2] "Beata quippe vita est gaudium de veritate." Augustini
_Confessionum_, Lib. x., caps. xxii., xxiii.

[275-1] "Prudens amator non tam donum amantis considerat, quam dantis
amorem. Nobilis amator non quiescit in dono, sed in me super omne
donum." _De Imitatione Christi_, Lib. iii., cap. vi.

[277-1] _Fifteen Sermons_ by Joseph Butler, Lord Bishop of Durham.
Sermon "On the love of God."

[277-2] _Unterhaltungen_, p. 131.

INDICES.

I. AUTHORS QUOTED.

Allen, H., 208.

Anaxagoras, 106.

Arnold, M., 249, 271.

Aristotle, 105.

Augustine, St., 20, 57, 93, 128, 191, 194, 274.

Bain, A., 9, 25, 52, 59, 87, 91, 244.

Barlow, H. C., 201.

Baxter, Richard, 60.

Boehmer, H., 7.

Boole, Geo., 24, 44, 104, 105, 108, 111.

Bunsen, 109, 251.

Butler, Bishop, 60, 119, 276.

Carlyle, 243.

Catlow, J. P., 14, 64.

Chateaubriand, 250.

Comte, A., 11, 39, 128, 187, 194, 252.

Condorcet, 267.

Cory, J. P., 191.

Coulange, 245.

Creuzer, 90, 106, 119, 127, 200, 212, 222.

Cussans, 210.

Dante, 93.

Darwin, C.