ely be based on ignorance and
misunderstanding, and in part at least removable.

* * * * *

The Rev. Alexander Robertson, a probationer of the Free Church of
Scotland, although never in office, died at Glasgow in 1879, leaving the
residue of his estate for the endowment of a lectureship as aforesaid.
As trustees he nominated two personal friends--the Rev. J.B. Dalgety, of
the Abbey Church, Paisley, and James Lymburn, Esq., the librarian of
Glasgow University. These two gentlemen made over the trust to the
Glasgow University Court, and the writer had the honour of being
appointed the first lecturer.

The Gunning Victoria Jubilee Lectureship in the University of Edinburgh
was founded by the late Dr. R.H. Gunning of Edinburgh and Rio de
Janeiro, in the year 1889. The object of the lectureship was "to promote
among candidates for the ministry, and to bring out among ministers the
fruits of study in Science, Philosophy, Languages, Antiquity, and
Sociology."

CONTENTS

I. THE NEW ERA--SOME LEADING WITNESSES 1

II. INDIAN CONSERVATISM 11

III. NEW SOCIAL IDEAS 21

IV. THE CHIEF SOLVENT OF THE OLD IDEAS 39

V. WOMAN'S PLACE 50

VI. THE TERMS WE EMPLOY 65

VII. NEW POLITICAL IDEAS--A UNITING INDIA 72

VIII. NEW POLITICAL IDEAS--FALSE PATRIOTISM 88

IX. NEW RELIGIOUS IDEAS--ARE THERE ANY? 103

X. THE NEW RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS OF INDIA IN THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY--INDIAN CHRISTIANS AND BRAHMAS 120

XI. NEW RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS--[=A]RYAS AND THEOSOPHISTS 132

XII. THE NEW MAHOMEDANS 144

XIII. HINDU DOCTRINES--HOW THEY CHANGE 148

XIV. THE NEW THEISM 166

XV. JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF 184

XVI. JESUS CHRIST THE LODESTONE 194

XVII. INDIAN PESSIMISM--ITS BEARING ON BELIEF IN THE HERE AND
HEREAFTER 213

XVIII. INDIAN TRANSMIGRATION AND THE