BABEL AND BIBLE

Two Lectures on the Significance of Assyriological Research for Religion; Embodying the Most Important Criticisms and the Author's Replies

BY

DR. FRIEDRICH DELITZSCH

Professor of Assyriology in the University of Berlin.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY

THOMAS J. MCCORMACK AND W. H. CARRUTH

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SWAIN SCHOOL LECTURES BY ANDREW INGRAHAM,

Late Head-Master of the Swain Free School, New Bedford, Mass.

I. PSYCHOLOGY. Multitude and variety of current psychologies. How some explain a belief of early men that they saw gods everywhere, and the belief of all men that they see solid bodies.

II. EPISTEMOLOGY. Knowledge a late and rare product of varied experiences of many men. This epistemologist asks whether certain conscious states are knowledges or not, particularly such as others know to be knowledges.

III. METAPHYSICS. How those who seek something profounder than knowledge of something grander than things are viewed by themselves and others.

IV. LOGIC. This science of relations deals more particularly with a few of these: the relations of classes as having or not, common members. This logic deals not with language or reasonings or metaphysic.

V. A UNIVERSE OF HEGEL. Of many interpretations of Hegel there is one that may not be thought to be travestied in this brief exposition.

VI. Seven Processes of LanguAGE. The meaning of language is here stretched to cover those processes which may be surmised to have an almost one-to-one correspondence with common speech.

VII. NINE USES OF LANGUAGE. Language does many things besides mediating communication.
VIII. MANY MEANINGS OF MONEY. To virtue and intelligence, money would be merely the
evidence of a trustworthy promise to deliver a defined value in a designated time.
IX. SOME Origins of the NUMBER TWO. A glimpse of what occurred while our every-day
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Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea

Editor: DR. PAUL CARUS.

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NO. 569

VOL. XVII. (No. 10) OCTOBER, 1903.

CONTENTS:

Frontispiece. ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS-RECONSTRUCTED.

Charles Carroll Bonney. Funeral Address. L. P. MERCER

Chevalier Pinetti-Conjurer. (Illustrated.) HENRY RIDGELY EVANS
Chinese Refugees of the Seventeenth Century in Japan. (Illustrated.) ERNEST
W. CLEMENT, M. A.

Chastity and Phallic Worship. EDITOR

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The Knocking of the Gate. A Psychological Study of the Dramatic Impressiveness of Religious Ritual. His Honor R. Stanley WeiR, D. C. L., Judge-Recorder of Montreal

The Religions of China. (Illustrated.) EDITOR

Obituary. Carus Sterne

Comments on "The Praise of Hypocrisy."

The Acropolis .

A Rabbi's Impression of the Oberammergau Passion Play
The Linear Measures of Babylonia

Book Reviews .

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