been attained. But the writer is well aware of the difficulty of being
always accurate in a task which involves such interminable study and such
an amount of details. He can only say, in the words of a Hebrew writer:
"If I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I
desired; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain
unto."




Contents.


Chapter I.

Introduction.--Ethnic and Catholic Religions.

§ 1. Object of the present Work
§ 2. Comparative Theology; its Nature, Value, and present Position
§ 3. Ethnic Religions. Injustice often done to them by Christian
Apologists
§ 4. How Ethnic Religions were regarded by Christ and his Apostles
§ 5. Comparative Theology will furnish a new Class of Evidences in
Support of Christianity
§ 6. It will show that, while most of the Religions of the World are
Ethnic, or the Religions of Races, Christianity is Catholic, or
adapted to become the Religion of all Races
§ 7. It will show that Ethnic Religions are partial, Christianity
universal
§ 8. It will show that Ethnic Religions are arrested, but that