A Modern Zoroastrian

INDEX.

• Abraham, 186.
• Accumulator, the electric, 63, 64.
• Acetic ether, 73, 74.
• Acids, 69, 70.
• Aerobes, 87, 88.
• Affinities, chemical, 51, 52, 55, 68;
• of Zoroastrianism and art, 212.
• Agriculture, 245.
• Ahriman, 4, 180, 202, 203, 265.
• Air, a cubic centimetre of, 20;
• pressure of, 24, 25.
• Aleutian Islands, 97.
• Alga, 95, 105;
• forests of the, 97.
• Algonquins, funeral custom, 149.
• Alizarine manufactured, 86.
• Alkalies, 69, 70.
• America, woman in, 111, 112;
• respect for law in, 235.
• Amœba, 76, 77, 82;
• propagation of the, 103, 104, 117.
• Amos, 187.
• Anemone, sea, 104.
• Angiosperms, 98.
• Animal life, 92, 93;
• Zoroaster enjoins kindness to, 207.
• Aquarium, 93;
• nature one huge, 101.
• Arnold, Matthew, 207;
• definition of the Deity by, 171.
• Aryan race, divisions of the, 199;
• religion of the, 200;
• language, 200.
• Assur, 153.
• Astronomy, 5;
• in early religions, 153.
• Athanasian Creed, 181-183.
• Atlantic cable, 60, 61.
• Atoms, 5, 10, 14;
• weight of, 15-17;
• theory of, 16;
• elementary, 18;
• and their laws, 19, 22, 25;
• vibrations of, 26;
• and ether, 32;
• and the vortex theory, 33, 34, 36;
• action of heat on, 43;
• and chemical energy, 50;
• affinities and repulsions of, 51;
• the primary element of matter, 66, 67;
• polarity of, 68;
• in hydrates, 69;
• of hydrogen in acids, 69, 70;
• of oxygen, 70;
• multipolar, 71;
• magnetic, 72;
• dimensions of, 119.
• Augustin, 201.
• Australia, free trade in, 242, 245.
• Authorities to whom the author is indebted, x.
• Atavism, 103, 118.
• Avogadro, law of, 13.
• Axolotl, 123.
• Bacteria, 85, 105.
• Balkh, Zoroaster at, 201.
• Bees, reproduction of, 106.
• Bel, 152, 153.
• Berkeley, Bishop, 142.
• Berlin, spirit-seeing in, 166.
• Blindness cured by hypnotism, 165.
• Bombay, death rate in, 1881, 1882, 218.
• Books, the best mirrors of an age, 111, 112;
• modern French novels, 113.
• Bozu, Buddhist priest upon the Divine Creator, 160, 161.
• Brahm, 114.
• Brahminism, 207.
• Braid, Dr., cures by hypnotism, 165, 168, 193.
• Brain, the, 125, 126;
• tissue of the, 127;
• average weight of the human, 129;
• organs of the, 130, 131;
• areas of speech, hearing, and sight in the, 132;
• intellectual faculties in the, 133;
• abnormal state of the, 134, 135;
• action of the grey tissue of the, 137;
• of the higher animals, 137, 138;
• cells of the, 140;
• action in a murder, 189;
• organ of will in the, 191, 192;
• effect of injuries to the, 192;
• effect of will on the, 194.
• Bret Harte, 110, 112.
• Bruce, legend of the heart of, 228.
• Buddha, 187.
• Buddhism, 156;
• in Shakespeare, 160;
• the Divine Creator in, 160, 161;
• morality of, 160, 184;
• based upon pessimism, 177, 197, 198, 206, 207.
• Burial of the dead, 149;
• prehistoric, 151;
• Parsee avoidance of, 208.
• Butyric acid, 73, 74.
• Byron on the Parsees, 219.
• Calculus, the differential, 6, 28-32, 138.
• California, 256.
• Canterbury, Augustin at, 201.
• Capital and labour, 176, 246-248.
• Carbon, 16, 18, 71;
• in dynamite, 50;
• radicals of, 73, 74, 77;
• in the protoplasm, 80;
• early abundance of, 86;
• in a dead body, 88;
• plant life and, 93.
• Carbonic dioxide, 16, 51, 82, 83, 92, 95, 96;
• in plant life, 101.
• Carlyle, 171, 188, 251.
• Carnegie, Andrew, on modern worship, 219.
• Catholic theology, 147.
• Cause, the Great First, 122, 162;
• Dr. Temple’s definition of, 170;
• evolution of the idea of, 172, 201, 203;
• Zoroaster and, 204;
• the only reasonable theory, 208.
• Cell, the first step in organisms, 78, 79;
• the nucleated multiplication of the, 104.
• Centrifugal force, 89, 90, 117.
• Centripetal force, 89, 90, 117;
• in societies, 233.
• Chaldean legends, 152, 153;
• of the Creation, 193.
• Chalk, formation of, 95.
• Chemical energy in electricity, 60.
• Chemistry, 5, 14, 25;
• elementary substances in, 17, 18, 74;
• energy in, 47;
• a modern law of change, 75;
• and the protoplasm, 84.
• Chinese funeral custom, 149;
• religion, origin of the, 152;
• religion, 156, 159;
• myths, 164;
• faith in a virgin mother, 155.
• Chlorine, 16, 70, 71.
• Christianity, 157, 198;
• the position of women influenced by, 108, 109;
• Pauline, 177;
• the creed of, 180, 181;
• impractical, 182;
• morality of, 184, 185, 188;
• influenced by Oriental asceticism, 212.
• Clausius, 19.
• Cleanliness and religion, 223, 224.
• Clerk Maxwell, 19.
• Coal, 45, 49, 97;
• heat in burning, 61, 62;
• land animals found in, 99.
• Cobden, Richard, 242.
• Colloids, 77, 78, 80.
• Comets, 25;
• supernatural dread of, 164.
• Communism, 252, 253.
• Conceptions, our, 143.
• Confucianism, 184, 198.
• Conservative legislation, 230;
• in England, 235.
• Contract, law of, 254, 255.
• Creation, unknown, 19;
• early myths of the, 152, 153.
• Cromwell, 213.
• Crystals, 10, 26-28.
• Cumming, Dr., 47.
• Darwin, 6, 122, 172;
• his theory of Pangenesis, 119;
• his theory of evolution, 121.
• David, 186.
• Descartes, 141.
• Deus, derivation of the word, 200.
• Deutsch, Emmanuel, on the Talmud, 172, 188.
• Diamond, the, 74, 77.
• Dionæa, 96.
• Dog, will in a, 39, 40;
• sense of right and wrong in a, 193.
• Drummond, Professor, 3.
• Dryopithecus, 100.
• Dynamite, 48, 50, 74, 176.
• Dynamo, the, 61-63.
• Earth, structure of the, 51, 52;
• first temperature of the, 86;
• orbit of the, 22, 89, 117.
• Echidna, the, 124.
• Education, 237-240.
• Egypt, ancient tombs in, 149, 150;
• animal worship in, 150;
• priests in, 152;
• astronomy in, 153, 154;
• a virgin mother worshipped in, 155;
• religious morality in, 184.
• Electric energy, 47;
• light currents, effects of, 57-59;
• telegraph, 59, 60;
• accumulator, 61;
• light, 56, 57, 61;
• engines, 62, 63.
• Electricity, 2, 14;
• ether in, 25;
• nature of, 52-55;
• in pith balls, 52, 53, 71, 72;
• velocity of the current in, 56;
• and magnets, 58, 59;
• storage of, 64.
• Embryology, 106.
• Emerson, vii.
• Energy, 2;
• nature of, 35, 36, 38, 66, 67;
• of motion and position, 37, 48;
• transformation of, 41, 42;
• in heat and light, 43, 44, 47;
• variations of, 47, 48;
• molecular, 49;
• chemical, 50;
• in electricity, 54-57;
• cost of, obtained from zinc, 61, 62;
• conservation of, 62, 63, 139.
• England, conservatism in, 236, 237;
• education in, 237-239;
• free trade in, 243.
• English literature, 111;
• woman in, 112, 113;
• colonisation, 232.
• Eozoon Canadiense, 99.
• Ethelbert, 201.
• Ether, 22, 36;
• density of, 24, 25;
• waves, 26, 43;
• vibrations of, 27;
• attempt to identify, with atoms, 32, 35;
• nature of, 66.
• Evil, origin of, 170, 173;
• attempts to reconcile it with good, 178;
• consistent with theory of God, 173, 202;
• modern treatment of, 224.
• Evolution, 6, 8, 121;
• of religion, 4, 155, 156, 185, 186;
• of matter, 80;
• of life, 100;
• important facts in the history of, 123;
• does not tend to virtue, 173, 176;
• of moral ideas, 186, 191;
• of the horror of murder, 189, 190.
• Fable of the shield, 227-230;
• applied to politics, 230;
• to commerce, 243, 244.
• “Faust” a Zoroastrian drama, 209.
• Ferdousi, 201.
• Fermentation, 87, 88.
• Ferns in the primary epoch, 97.
• Fetish worship, 150.
• Fiji, 149, 189.
• Fire, primitive means of obtaining, 41;
• worship, 207, 220.
• Fish shells in the Tertiary epoch, 98;
• in the Silurian epoch, 99.
• Fungi, 95.
• France, protection in, 246;
• state railways in, 261.
• Franklin, Benjamin, 163.
• French Revolution, 231, 233;
• colonisation, 232;
• trade in a colony, 233.
• Frog with the brain removed, 137.
• Galileo, 147, 164, 205.
• Gallio, 239.
• Gas in dynamite, 51.
• Gases, law of, 11-13;
• in water, 14;
• kinetic theory of, 14, 33;
• substances reduced to, 44;
• expansion of, 45.
• Galton, Mr. F., 240.
• Genesis, the Creation in, 152, 153.
• Geology, 5;
• records of, 96;
• earliest strata of, 97;
• vegetable records in, 96-98;
• animal records in, 99, 100.
• Geometry, 139.
• George, Henry, 256.
• Ghosts, universal belief in, 149-151.
• Glass, 49, 53.
• Globigerena, 95.
• God, Buddhist idea of, 161;
• a magnified man, 170, 171;
• Carlyle on, 171;
• Arnold’s definition of, 171;
• Jewish doctors on, 172;
• prevalent idea of miraculous intervention by, 173;
• the author of good and evil, 179;
• primitive Aryan word for, 200.
• Grammar, 239, 240.
• Gravity, the law of, 5, 16, 48, 49, 121, 144;
• atoms subject to the, 34;
• universal confidence in the, 148;
• a dangerous heresy, 164.
• Greeks, religion amongst the, 155, 156.
• Gushtasp, 201.
• Gymnosperms, 97, 98.
• Haeckel, 119, 122.
• Hale, Justice, 164.
• Halley, 164.
• Haug, Dr., 202, 205.
• Heat, produced by work, 41, 42;
• nature of, 43;
• performs work, 44, 47;
• and electricity, 54, 61;
• and the stability of substances, 74;
• in chemistry, 75.
• Helmholz, 32.
• Hercules, 193, 197.
• Heredity, the principle of, 117-121;
• in education, 240.
• Hesperornis, 123.
• Hillel, morality of, 188.
• Hindoo religion, 152, 156;
• migration, 199.
• Horace, 163.
• Horse, 119.
• Human remains in Tertiary period, 100;
• implements, prehistoric, 144, 145.
• Hume, 162.
• Huxley, Professor, v., vi., 78, 86, 122, 172, 203;
• on spontaneous generation, 85;
• on the protista, 94;
• on the uniformity of law in Nature, 146.
• Hydrates, 69.
• Hydrochloric acid, 16, 70, 71.
• Hydrogen, 11, 13, 16-18, 70, 71, 74, 75;
• composition of, 15;
• in the sun, 26;
• in dynamite, 50;
• in water, 52, 68, 238;
• in the accumulator, 63;
• in acids, 69;
• in the protoplasm, 80;
• in a dead body, 88.
• Hypnotism, 134, 192;
• blindness cured by, 165, 166;
• an old lady dancing through, 193.
• Ibn Ezra, 172.
• India, British railways in, 250.
• Indians, North American, totem of the, 150;
• murder amongst the, 189.
• Indigotine, 86.
• Induction, phenomena of, 58.
• Intellectual faculties, the seat of the, 133, 134.
• Iodine vapour, 75.
• Iranian migration, 199;
• language, 200.
• Ireland, popular ignorance of the land question in, 9;
• rents in, 233, 234;
• contracts in, 254;
• railways in, 262.
• Iron, filings and a magnet, 1, 10, 11, 27;
• contraction of, 49, 50;
• bar and a magnet, 68;
• rust, 68, 81;
• motion of, 83.
• Irving, Edward, 166.
• Isaiah, 187.
• Isomerism, 74.
• Istar, vi.
• Jehovah, gradual conception of, 157, 158, 186.
• Jehuda Hilmi, 172.
• Jesus, on miracles, 168, 169;
• the personification of Ormuzd, 180-183, 204;
• an historical personage, 198;
• adopted a Jewish view of religion, 212.
• Jewish doctors on God, 172;
• gradual development of the, religion, 157;
• morality in the, religion, 186, 187.
• Jijibhoy, Jamsedjee, Sir, 217.
• “Jingoism,” 241.
• Joule, Dr., 42, 46.
• Jupiter, the planet, 22, 25.
• Kant, 141, 142.
• Kesar, 152, 153.
• Knowledge, limits of our, 125-127, 136, 139-141.
• Knox, John, 221.
• Lakman and Lakmana, 152.
• Latimer, 221.
• Law in Nature, 6, 144, 145, 164, 171;
• common, 236.
• Lead, 63.
• Leibnitz, 194.
• Lichens, 95, 96.
• Light, waves, 19, 23, 24, 26-28, 43;
• velocity of, 21, 22;
• energy in, 47;
• electric, 56, 57, 61.
• Lightning conductors, 163.
• Lourdes, miracles at, 168.
• Luther, 198
• Magnet, the, 1, 2, 27, 68, 70, 71;
• nature of, 58.
• Magnetism, vii.
• Mahometanism, 157, 158, 198, 213.
• Maimonides on God, 172.
• Manuals in geology, 100.
• Manufacturers, generous, 217.
• Marriage, 115.
• Mass, the, 223.
• Matter, 10;
• nature of, 66, 67.
• Meat, frozen, 45, 87.
• Mechanical action in life, 39, 40, 91;
• power, 41;
• process in nerve action, 129, 130.
• Menai Bridge, 50.
• Mercury, 17, 44.
• Metrical system, the, 42.
• Mexican myths, 154, 155.
• Microcrith, 15.
• Microscope, 11, 239.
• Mill, John Stuart, 161.
• Milton, 209, 213.
• Miracles, 6;
• a question of evidence, 162, 163;
• early belief in, 164;
• uselessness of ordinary, 167, 170;
• not found in Zoroastrianism, 204.
• Molecules, 5, 10, 12, 22, 25;
• weight of, 13;
• in chemistry, 14;
• of oxygen and hydrogen, 15;
• composition of, 18;
• in a cubic centimetre of air, 20;
• vibrations of, 26;
• the vortex theory of, 33, 34;
• action of heat on, 43-46;
• of nitrogen, 50;
• nature of, 67;
• complex, 73;
• of monera, 79;
• of the protoplasm, 80, 81.
• Molecular energies, 47, 49.
• Monera, 79, 94;
• reproduction of the, 103, 117.
• Monogamy, 109.
• Monotheism, 156.
• Moon, worship of the, 102, 153;
• Parsee worship of the, 219.
• Morality, in religions, 108, 184-188;
• in nations, 110;
• origin of, 190, 191.
• Mormonism, 213.
• Motion, of living beings, 83;
• independent of will in the brain, 137, 192.
• Music in religion, 222.
• Murder, 189, 190.
• Nerves, 129, 130;
• divisions of the, 131;
• channels of the, 133.
• Newcome, Colonel, 211.
• Newman, Cardinal, 147, 148, 159.
• Newton, 16, 17, 28, 121, 138, 144, 205.
• Nickel, a magnet, 68.
• Nicolai, visions seen by, 166.
• Nitric acid, 69.
• Nitrogen, 18, 69, 88;
• in dynamite, 50, 51;
• in the protoplasm, 80.
• Nitro-glycerine (dynamite), 50, 51.
• Nitrous oxide, 51.
• Northumberland House, lion on, 167.
• Novelists, English, 111.
• Nummulitic limestone, 94, 95.
• Nursery rhymes, 142.
• Nutrition, 81.
• Octoroon, 118.
• Oersted, 59.
• Optimism, 176.
• Ormuzd, 3, 4;
• Jesus the modern, 180-182;
• a definition of, 201, 202;
• homage due to, 203;
• sonnet to, 265.
• Oxide of iron, 43, 81.
• Oxygen, 11, 13, 14, 18, 57, 238;
• composition of, 15;
• is universal, 16;
• weight of an atom of, 16;
• and iron, 43;
• in dynamite, 50;
• affinities of, 52;
• in the accumulator, 63;
• in water, 68, 75;
• bipolar, 70;
• in the protoplasm, 80;
• in contact with dead bodies, 88;
• and animal life, 93, 96;
• in plant life, 101.
• Palgrave, 158.
• Pangenesis, 119.
• Pantheism, in China, 156;
• prevalence of, 159, 160.
• Paris, 241.
• Parsees, the, 199;
• creed of the, 205;
• rites of the, 207, 208;
• the distinguishing characteristics of the, 214-216;
• women amongst, 215, 216;
• a commercial people, 217;
• death rate amongst the, 218;
• Byron on the, 219;
• modern worship of the, 219, 264.
• Parthenogenesis, 106.
• Pasteur, 87.
• Patriotism, 240, 241.
• Peel, Sir Robert, 242.
• Pendulum, 37.
• Perceptions, the basis of knowledge, 125, 140.
• Permian formation, 97;
• reptiles in the, 99.
• Perron, Anquetil du, 203.
• Peruvian myths, 154, 155.
• Pessimism, 177, 178.
• Pharisees, 168, 169.
• Philo, 187.
• Philosophy, and the unknown, 141;
• in Eastern religion, 160.
• Physical conditions and religious progress, 224.
• Pigeon with the brain removed, 137, 192.
• Pith-balls, electricity in, 52, 53, 71, 72.
• Planet worship, 155.
• Plant life, 82, 92, 93;
• reproduction of, 84, 105;
• food, 95;
• fly-eating, 96;
• gradual appearance in geology of, 97;
• in the chalk, 98.
• Plato, 142.
• Polarity, law of, v., vii., 1-4, 10, 65;
• in crystals, 27, 28;
• in wave motion, 38;
• in will, 40, 195;
• of chemical elements, 68, 70;
• electrical differs from magnetic, 72;
• is the clue to the construction of the world, 74;
• in life, 76, 89, 93;
• in the organic world, 91;
• in evolution, 100;
• in sex, 107, 109, 114, 115;
• a law of existence, 171;
• asserts itself in society, 174;
• in moral life, 178;
• in art and fiction, 209-211;
• in politics, 230, 231;
• in political economy, 247-250.
• Polytheism, 157.
• Poor laws, the, 253.
• Population, effects of the accumulation of, 175, 176.
• Postal service, 260.
• Potassic hydrates, 69.
• Pramantha, 41, 42.
• Prayer, Zoroastrian, 223, 225.
• Prehistoric faith in spirits, 151.
• Priesthood, first records of a, 52.
• Primary period, the, 97;
• fish in the, 99.
• Principles, Zoroaster’s two great, 202.
• Progress, modern, 7.
• Prometheus, 42, 209.
• Propagation of life by germs, 104, 118;
• of the lower plants, 105.
• Property in land, 255, 256.
• Protection, 244-246.
• Protista, 94.
• Protoplasm, the, 78, 79, 81, 84;
• nature of the, 80;
• the first, 87;
• the origin of all life, 93;
• in nerve-endings, 129.
• Proudhon, 256.
• Putrefaction, 87, 88.
• Pyramids, the, 10;
• astronomical value of the, 153, 154.
• Quakers, the, 213.
• Quantivalence of substances, 71, 72.
• Radiolaria, 95.
• Railway, companies, 248;
• profits of companies, 249, 250;
• working of a State, 261, 262.
• Religion, 4;
• nature of, 146;
• origin of, 148, 149, 151;
• early, 152;
• universal faith in a virgin mother, 154, 155;
• planet worship, 155;
• gradual evolution of, 155, 156;
• philosophical in the East, 160;
• nature in, 163;
• wars of, 179;
• amongst savages, 185;
• Jewish, 186;
• and morality, 188;
• Aryan, 200;
• of Zoroaster, 201, 208, 223;
• probable form of modern, 203, 209;
• music the language of, 222, 223.
• Roman Church, the, 223.
• Reproduction of species, 83;
• of worms, 104;
• sexual, 105, 106, 118.
• Reptiles, 99.
• Ricardo, 247.
• Russia, 243;
• communism in, 253.
• Sabbath, the, 212;
• origin of the, 155;
• in England, 212, 220.
• Saint Paul, his doctrine of predestination, 158;
• on God, 172;
• Christianity of, 177, 188;
• on charity, 182.
• —— Vitus’s dance, 166.
• Salt, 52, 70.
• Salvation Army, the, 180.
• Sanskrit, 199, 200.
• Sargasso Sea, 97.
• Saul, 180, 186.
• Savages, and numbers, 138, 191;
• religion amongst, 149-151, 185;
• murder amongst, 189, 190.
• Schliemann, Professor, 151.
• Scotland, virtue in, 176;
• the poor rate in, 253.
• Scott, Sir Walter, 210, 211, 241.
• Secondary epoch, the, 97;
• reptiles and birds in the, 99;
• transformation of a water into an air population, 123.
• Semitic races, religion amongst the, 156.
• Sermons, 220-222;
• on the mount, 184, 187, 254.
• Sex in ancient creeds, 102, 103.
• Shakers, the, 166, 252.
• Shakespeare, on women, 112;
• Buddhism in, 160;
• despondency of, 178;
• polarity of character in, 210, 211.
• Shelley, 19, 226.
• Snakes, changes from oviparous to viviparous, 124.
• Soap bubbles, 19;
• a clue to the dimensions of light, 33.
• Socialism, 251, 252.
• Society, 231.
• Sociology, H. Spencer on, 259.
• Socrates on religion, 172.
• Sodium, 52, 70.
• Solar myths, 152-154;
• system worshipped by the Aryans, 200.
• Somnambulism, 126, 134, 135, 192.
• Sonnet to Ormuzd, 265.
• Soul, the, 194.
• Sound waves, velocity of, 24.
• Species, 118, 119.
• Spectroscope, 25, 26.
• Spectrum of sun-rays, 43.
• Spencer, Herbert, x., 113, 161, 203;
• on antagonistic forces, 90;
• on polarity in religion, 109, 172;
• on politics, 231;
• on altruism, 254;
• on sociology, 259;
• works of, 264.
• Spiritualism, 136.
• Spontaneous generation, 84, 89.
• State interference, 253, 255, 257;
• railways, 261, 262;
• trade for national defence, 263.
• Steam, action of, 45, 49;
• engine, 45, 61.
• Stone-throwing, brain action in, 38, 39.
• Substances, quality and grouping of, 73;
• stability of, 74, 75.
• Succession duty, 258.
• Sun, 26;
• heat of the, 45.
• Sutherland family, crest of the, 150.
• Tait, Professor, 32.
• Talmud, the, 172, 212;
• morality in the, 187, 188.
• Telephone, the, 60.
• Temple, Dr., 162;
• on evolution, 121;
• on a Creator, 170, 203;
• on man, 193.
• Tennyson, 203, 210, 226, 241.
• Tertiary epoch, 98;
• mammals in the, 100.
• Thomson, Sir W., 19, 21, 32.
• Tobit, the Book of, 187.
• Trade, free, 242-245.
• Trance, phenomena of, 135.
• Traveller, a, on misery in Christian lands, 175.
• Triton, the, 122.
• Tulliver, Maggie, 112, 211.
• Turkey, 110, 111;
• woman in, 112.
• Turks, English, 113, 114.
• Tyndall, 94.
• United States, the, 241, 242;
• protection in the, 242, 243, 246;
• homestead laws in the, 256, 257.
• Unknown, the Great, 126, 127.
• Urea, 86.
• Variations of species, principle of, 120.
• Vedas, the Hindoo, 152;
• antiquity of the, 199.
• Vendidad, the, 202.
• Virgin mother, prevalence of faith in a, 154, 155.
• Voltaic battery, the, 14, 55, 61.
• Volume, variations of, 12.
• Vortex theory, 33, 34.
• Wales, coal in, 258.
• Wahabite reformer, 158.
• Water, formation of, 11, 12, 14, 15, 52;
• and electricity, 14, 53;
• a cubic inch of, magnified, 21;
• becomes vapour, 45, 46, 75;
• freezing, 81.
• Waves, motion, 23, 24, 48;
• light, 19-24, 26-28, 43;
• sound, 24.
• Wheat, mummy, 80.
• Will, free, 191;
• nature of the, 194.
• Witchcraft, 164, 179.
• Woman, natural office of the, 107, 108;
• position of, a test of civilisation, 110, 111;
• in modern books, 111, 112;
• rights of, 116;
• amongst the Parsees, 214-216.
• Wood, burning, 75.
• Wordsworth, pantheism in, 159, 160.
• Worms, reproduction of, 104.
• Zend, dialect, 199, 200;
• scriptures, 201, 202;
• Avesta, 203.
• Zinc, in electricity, 61.
• Zodiac, the, 153.
• Zoophytes, 94, 95.
• Zoroaster, 4, 187;
• theory of, 7, 179, 197, 202, 203, 223;
• history of, 197, 198;
• known by his book, 199;
• a reformer, 200;
• at Balkh, 201;
• his creed not weighted by tradition, 204;
• miraculous conception of, 205.
• Zoroastrian, a modern, 3;
• creed of a, 180;
• morality, 205, 206.
• Zoroastrianism and art, 212;
• and modern thought, 213.