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Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5 / Miscellaneous Later Essays

Chapter 5: Index.
By F. Max Müller
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A collection of essays by a comparative philologist examines individual liberty, the origins and interpretation of myth, methodological errors in comparative theology, practical issues of spelling, and reports on Sanskrit manuscripts found in East Asia. The author argues for a broad conception of personal freedom, analyzes myth as a product of linguistic and cultural development, critiques false analogies that mislead theological comparison, and advocates clearer orthography. The final essay describes discovery and significance of Sanskrit texts and their bearing on linguistic scholarship. Throughout, scholarly argument combines historical examples, philological evidence, and reflective commentary.

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Index.

Academic freedom not without dangers, 39.
Adams, H. C., quoted, 25.
Alphabet, phonetic, table of, 150;
reading according to, 151 sq.
Amyot, quoted, 131.
Analogies, false, in comparative theology, 98 sq.
Anaxagoras, quoted, 56.
Anglo-Saxon names for the days of the week, 118.
Apostles, The, read the Veda, 127.
Archbishops have no official position in English universities, 8.
Aristotle, disrespectful remarks about, 38;
quoted, 56.
Babylonian system of dividing gold and silver still found in the English sovereign, 19;
of reckoning time found on the dial-plates of our clocks, 19.
Beveridge, Bishop, quoted, 30.
Bochart, quoted, 98.
Brackett, A. C., quoted, 88.
Budha, day of, 121.
-- and Buddha, distinction between, 115, 119.
Buddha, a personal and historical character, 122;
repetition of his name meritorious, 235.
Buddhism, when recognized in China, 191 sq.;
Japan converted to, 213;
and Scandinavian mythology, connection between, 113 sq., 122.
Buhler, Dr., quoted, 208.
Burnouf, quoted, 112.
Cassius, Dio, quoted, 118.
Chinese translators of Sanskrit texts, 189.
Christian religion, historical and individual, 62.
Cicero, quoted, 72.
Clement of Alexandria, quoted, 58, 61.
Clodd, E., quoted, 84.
Coincidences between Jewish and Pagan religious, 98 sq.
Colbourne, Wm., quoted, 153.
Counting possible without language, 67.
Daphne, meaning of, 82.
Davids Rhys, quoted, 16.
Dictionaries, value of, 17.
Dogmatic teaching, evil of, 31.
Donar, 120.
Du Bois-Reymond, quoted, 9.
Duhitar, a Sanskrit word for daughter, 17.
Dyaus, 121.
Edkins, Dr., quoted, 205.
Education, academic, 28;
elementary, 23;
scholastic, 24;
in the beginning purely dogmatic, 22;
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compulsory, mark of a new era, 21;
dangers of compulsory, 22.
Ellis, quoted, 111 sq.
Ellis, A. J., quoted, 155 sq.
Empedokles, quoted, 56, 65.
English, society, intolerance of, 7.
-- universities described, 10;
too little of academic freedom in, 40.
-- names for the days of the week, 118.
-- written in hieroglyphics, 17 sq.
-- spelling, a national misfortune, 22.
-- present number of speaking, 138;
future number of speaking, 138.
Epicharmos, quoted, 55.
Esquimaux, tale among the, quoted, 83 sq.
Esthonian tale, quoted, 86 sq.
Examinations, good, to be rewarded by honor, 44;
a means to ascertain how pupils have been taught, 43;
strong feeling against, 42 sq.
Fergusson, Jas., quoted, 113 sq.
Figures, our, received from the Arabs, 20.
Forgeries in Sanskrit MSS., 109.
Freedom, address on, 1 sq.;
of thought, meaning of, 3.
Freethinkers, a title of honor, 6.
French, names for the days of the week, 118;
present number of speaking, 137;
future number of speaking, 138.
Freyja, day of, 120.
Friday, 120.
Genus and Species, meaning of, 32 sq.
German names for the days of the week, 119.
-- Middle-High, names for the days of the week, 119.
-- Old-High, names for the days of the week, 119.
-- present number of speaking, 138;
future number of speaking, 138.
-- Universities, how much time spent in lecturing in, 39.
Grammars, Latin and Greek, deficiencies of, 26.
Greek and Roman classics not read enough, 25.
Greek philosophy, its development chiefly due to the absence of an established religion and influential priesthood, 63;
religion, national and traditional, 62.
Gutzlaff, quoted, 205.
Haekel, quoted, 182.
Hall, Newman, quoted, 154.
Helios, meaning of, 80.
Helmholtz, quoted, 7, 40.
Herakleitos, quoted, 58.
Heredity, meaning of, 14 sq.
Herodotus, quoted, 58.
Herschel, Sir John, quoted, 74 sq.
Herzen, quoted, 4.
Hillebrand, quoted, 9.
Hipparchus, a Greek astronomer, 19.
Hobbes, referred to, 3, 32.
Holwell, quoted, 102.
Homer, quoted, 71, 79;
condemned by Plato, 59;
his soul hanging in Hades on a tree, 58.
Hottentot fables quoted, 85 sq.
Huet, quoted, 99.
Indians of Nicaragua, quotation [pg 245] from a compendium of the theology of, 70.
Individualism, what? 4.
Individuality, principle of, suffering more now than before, 11.
Italian, present number of speaking, 137;
future number of speaking, 138.
Jacolliott, quoted and criticised, 123 sq.
Japan converted to Buddhism, legend about, 213.
Jehovah, name of, found in Chinese literature, 131, 132.
Jones, Sir. W., quoted, 100, 101 sq., 107 sq.
-- Eduard, quoted, 144 sq.
Josephus, quoted, 116 sq.
Jovis dies, 120.
Julien, St., quoted, 132.
Jupiter, the name, no mere accident, 90 sq.;
the thunderer, 120.
Justin Martyr, quoted, 117.
Karman, meaning of, 15 sq.
Knowledge, dead, dangerous, 28.
Kû-fa-lan, works ascribed to him, 194.
Kukai, founder of a sect in Japan, 214.
Language and thought inseparable, 67;
its influence on thought, 79.
Lapland, legend of, quoted, 88.
Latin names for the days of the week, 118.
Mars, the god of war, 121.
Meiklejohn, quoted, 147.
Mercurii dies, 119, 121.
Metrodorus, quoted, 56.
Mill, J. S., quoted, 1, 12, 21;
his plea for liberty decried, 4, without reason, 5;
his election to Parliament a triumph, 6.
Milligan, quoted, 76.
Montucci, quoted, 130.
Mosaic account of creation found among the Tahitians, 111.
Müller's, M., rejoinder to Prof. Blackie, 91 sq.
Mythology, meaning of, 55, 64 sq., 66;
interest of, in our days, 53;
religion of the Greeks, 61;
now as there was in time of Homer, 65;
pervades the sphere of religion and of thought, 69;
philosophy of, lecture on, 53 sq.
Names to be submitted to very careful snuffing, 37.
Nihilism, defined, 4; dangers of, 5.
Nirvana, definition of, 16.
Nominalism, higher, or Science of Language, 37.
Odin, 120, 121, 122.
Old-Norse names for the days of the week, 118.
Omniscience to be avoided, 47.
Oriental tongue, now spoken in Europe, 16 sq.
Over-examinations, complaints against, 46.
Paradise. See Sukhavati.
Phoibos, meaning of, 81;
and Daphne, story of, 81 sq.
Phonetic alphabet, table of, 150;
reading according to, 151 sq.
Pioneer (an Indian paper), quoted, 113.
Planets, their names, 118;
used for the names of the days of the week, 116.
Plato, quoted, 59 sq., 79.
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Population, table of supposed number of years required for doubling the, in different countries, 138.
Portuguese, number of speaking, 137.
Power and Responsibility of English Universities, 10.
Psyche, meaning of, 69, 72.
Public opinion, 11, 12.
Religions, division of, 62.
Remusat quoted, 131.
Russian, number of speaking, 138;
society described, 4.
Sabbath mentioned by Roman and Greek writers, 117 sq.
Sanskrit names for the days of the week, 118.
-- MSS., materials on which they were written, 206 sq.;
searched for in China, 203 sq.;
in Japan, 210;
texts discovered in Japan, 181 sq.;
translated by Chinese, 189 sq.
Saturni dies, 116 sq., 121.
Scandinavian mythology and Buddhism, connection between, 113 sq., 122.
Schools in England and on the Continent, shortcomings of, 25 sq.
Self-government, dangers of, 10.
Semiphonotopy, name for a style of spelling, 141;
reading according to, 191 sq.
Sextus Empiricus, quoted, 58.
Snow, name for, 77.
Society, human, secret of, 13.
Sokrates, quoted, 56.
Sokratic method, 24.
Spanish, present number of speaking, 137;
future number of speaking, 138.
Species and Genus, meaning of, 32 sq.
Spelling, reform of, 133 sq., 135 sq.;
favorite subject with Roman scholars, 140.
Stahl, quoted, 69.
Sueton, quoted, 116.
Sukhavati-vyûha, a title of a Buddhist Sutra, 214;
list of MSS. of, now extant, 216 sq.;
translation of, 220 sq.
Sukhavati, or Paradise, described, 223 sq.
Sun, sign or name for, 75 sq., 78.
Sunrise, feelings at the, 74.
Swift, Dean, quoted, 134.
Table of the names of the days of the week in—
Anglo-Saxon, 118.
English, 118.
French, 118.
German, 119.
-- Middle-High, 119.
-- Old-High, 119.
Latin, 118.
Old Norse, 118.
Sanskrit, 118.
Table of the names of the Planets, 118, 119.
Tacitus, quoted, 121.
Teachers to be natural examiners, 43.
Testament, the Old, accounts of, found in the literature of the Brahmans, 100, 106.
-- Old and New, found in the Vedas., 123;
borrowed from Brahmans and Buddhists, 101 sq.
Theology, on false analogies in comparative, 98 sq.
Thirlwall, Bishop, quoted, 143.
Thought and language inseparable, 67.
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Thor, 120.
Thunar, 120.
Thursday, 120.
Tiu, 120.
Tocqueville, De, referred to, 12.
Trench, quoted, 169 sq.
Tylor, E. B., quoted, 70.
Uniformity, dangers of, 12 sq.
Universities, English and German, compared, 7 sq.;
differences between, 9 sq.;
guardians of freedom of thought, 28;
mediæval and modern, home of free thought, 51.
Vaksh, Sanskrit word for to grow, like the English to wax, 17.
Veneris dies, 120.
Vid, Sanskrit word for to know, like the English to wit, 17.
Virgil quoted, 71.
Vosisus, S. J., quoted, 99.
Week, names of the seven days of the, received from the names of the planets, 116.
Weeks and week-days, system of counting, first introduced in Egypt, 118.
Wilford, quoted, 106.
Wilson, quoted, 188.
Wodan, day of, 120, 121.
Wunsch or Wish, name of Wuotan, 121.
Wuotan, 120.
Xenophanes, on Homer and Hesiod, 57 sq.
Zeus Kronīon, meaning of, 80, 121.
Ziu, 121.