SELECTED ESSAYS

ON

LANGUAGE, MYTHOLOGY, AND RELIGION

VOL. II.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE

AND PARLIAMENT STREET

SELECTED ESSAYS

ON

LANGUAGE, MYTHOLOGY

AND

RELIGION

BY

Friedrich

F. MAX MÜLLER, K.M.

Foreign Member of the French Institute

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.

WITH A PHOTOLITHOGRAPH OF A SANSKRIT TEXT

DISCOVERED IN JAPAN

LONDON

LONG MANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1881

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CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

XI. OPENING ADDRESS, delivered by the President of the

Aryan Section at the International Congress of

Orientalists, held in London, September 14-21,

1874

Note A. Influence of the study of the Science of

Language on public opinion in India.

Note B. Influence of the study of the Veda in

Europe on Religious Reform in India

XII. WESTMINSTER LECTURE on Missions, delivered in

the nave of Westminster Abbey, December 3,

1873

Note A. Passages illustrating the missionary cha-
racter of Buddhism.

Note B. Schism in the Brahma-Samâj

Note C. Keshub Chunder Sen, on 'Christ and Chris-

tianity'

XIII. ON THE VITALITY OF BRAHMANISM (Fortnightly

Review, July 1874).

XIV. LECTURE ON THE VEDAS or the Sacred Books of the

Brahmans (March 1865)

XV. BUDDHISM (Edinburgh Review, 1862)

Note. Religious statistics of Buddhism (1880)