left to its own disinterested motions, would have looked through and
through this monstrous fable of Essenism, coolly adopted it, no questions
asked, as soon as he perceived the value of it as an argument against
Christianity.

[5] "_Solitary road_."--The reader must remember that, until the seventh
century of our era, when Mahometanism arose, there was no _collateral_
history. Why there was none, why no Gothic, why no Parthian history, it
is for Rome to explain. We tax ourselves, and are taxed by others, with
many an imaginary neglect as regards India; but assuredly we cannot be
taxed with _that_ neglect. No part of our Indian empire, or of its
adjacencies, but has occupied the researches of our Oriental scholars.




CONTENTS


CHAPTER I.
THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD
DREAM ECHOES OF THESE INFANT EXPERIENCES
DREAM ECHOES FIFTY YEARS LATER

CHAPTER II.
INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF STRIFE

CHAPTER III.
INFANT LITERATURE