uddhism, and Taouism all Show
Degeneration--Mohammedan Corruption since the Days of the Early
Caliphs--The Religions of Greece and Rome Became Effete--Even
Israel, in Spite of Instruction and Reproof, Lapsed into Idolatry
again and again--Even the Christian Church has Shown Similar
Tendencies.

LECTURE VIII.

INDIRECT TRIBUTES OF HEATHEN SYSTEMS TO THE DOCTRINES
OF THE BIBLE 266

The Universality and Similarity of Race Traditions--Their General
Support of the Old Testament History--Traditions of the Creation
Found in India, China, among the Northern Turanians and some
African Tribes--The Fall of Man as Traced in Assyria and among the
Hindus--The Buddhists of Ceylon, Mongolians, Africans and Tahitans
had Similar Traditions--The Flood--Traditions of the Chinese, the
Iranians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Peruvians--The
Prevalence of Piacular Sacrifice and Tokens of a Sense of
Guilt--Traditions or Traces of Substitution Found in the
Vedas--Faint Traces in the Religion of the Egyptians--Traditions of
the Iroquois--Prophecies Looking to Divine Deliverers--The Tenth
Avatar of Vishnu yet to Come as a Restorer of Righteousness--The
Influence of the Tradition as Utilized by a Missionary--A Norse
Deliverer and Millennium--The Prediction of the Cumaean Sibyl Forty
Years before the Birth of Christ--Prevailing Conceptions of some
Mediator between God and Man--The Hindu Krishna as an
Example--Changes in Buddhism from the Old Atheism to Theism, and
even to a Doctrine of Salvation by Faith--A Trinity and at last a
Saviour--All the False Systems Claiming the Teachings and the
Character of Christ.

LECTURE IX.

ETHICAL TENDENCIES OF THE EASTERN AND THE WESTERN
PHILOSOPHIES 294

The Prevalence of Speculation in all Ages in Regard to the Great
Questions of Man's Origin and Destiny, and His Relations to
God--The Various Schemes which have Seemingly Dispensed with the
Necessity for a Creator in Accounting for the Existence of the
Visible World--The Ancient Atomic Theories and Modern
Evolution--Kanada, Lucretius, Herbert Spencer--Darwin's Theory of
the Development of Species--Similar Theories Ascribed to the
Chinese--The Ethical Difficulties Attending Many Philosophic
Speculations, Ancient and Modern--Hindu Pantheism and Moral
Responsibility-