1 J. G. Frazer (Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Hon. D.C.L. Oxford; Hon. LL.D. Glasgow; Hon. Litt. D. Durham, etc.), in his Preface to the second edition of The Golden Bough.
2 Professor Max Müller, in The Science of Religion, p. 40.
3 The italics are mine throughout this quotation; also words within brackets [ ].
4 See Appendix.
5 “We are accustomed to find the legendary and the miraculous gathering, like a halo, around the early history of religious leaders, until the sober truth runs the risk of being altogether neglected for the glittering and edifying falsehood” (Enc. Brit., vol. iv., art. “Buddhism,” p. 424). This process is recognised as a universal rule. What grounds have we for assuming that Christianity is exempt from it?
6 See Appendix.
7 See Appendix.
8 Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, was possibly a historical person. We are quite in the dark as to the precise date of Zoroaster. Duncker places him about the year 1000 B.C.
9 Apol. I. 54 and I. 21. Quoted in the Enc. Bib., art. “Mary.”
10 Pp. 78–9 of his important work, Divine Immanence.
11 Mexican Antiquities, vol. vi., pp. 197–200.
12 Egyptian Belief, p. 370.
13 Middleton’s Works, vol. i., pp. 63, 64.
14 Rawlinson’s Herodotus, vol. ii., p. 260, note 3.
15 See his work, Mythology of the Aryan Nations, vol. ii., p. 113.
16 Mexican Antiquities, vol. vi., p. 95.
17 Myths of the New World, p. 166.
18 P. 393 of Monumental Christianity, or the Art and Symbolism of the Primitive Church as Witness and Teachers of the One Catholic Faith and Practice.
19 In his book, Bushido, pp. 15–19 and 24.
20 P. 152 of his book, King David of Israel (Watts, 1905).
21 The Gods of the Egyptians, vol. ii., p. 220.
22 Ibid., vol. i., Preface, p. xv.
23 They appear in Part II., pp. 171, 183, 188, 300, and 302.
24 A translation of the Chinese version of the “Abbinishkramana Sûtra.” For the probable date, see Appendix.
25 See Herbert Spencer’s Principles of Sociology, Vol. I., Part I., chapter on “The Primitive Man—Emotional.”
26 Professor Robertson Smith, in The Religion of the Semites, p. 347. Dr. W. R. Smith was a distinguished Scottish Biblical scholar and Orientalist. From 1881 he was associated as joint editor of the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica with Professor Spencer Baynes, after whose death in 1887 he was sole editor.
27 J. M. Robertson, in his book, Pagan Christs, pp. 373–4.
28 For this and the following graphic accounts I am indebted to Mr. J. M. Robertson’s book, Pagan Christs, Part IV.—“The Religion of Ancient America.”
29 Quoted from his celebrated book, The Golden Bough.
30 See p. 145, note.
31 See Appendix.
32 See “Gods of Cultivation” in Grant Allen’s Evolution of the Idea of God.
33 See Appendix.
34 The Evolution of the Idea of God (chapter on “The Gods of Cultivation”).
35 Ibid (chapter on “The Origin of Gods”).
36 Principles of Sociology, vol. i. (chapter on “Primitive Ideas,” p. 102).
37 Principles of Sociology (chapter on “Inspiration, Divination, Exorcism, and Sorcery,” p. 241).
38 P. 366, vol. ii. of The Golden Bough.
39 Anacalypsis, vol. 1., p. 638.
40 St. Matthew xii. 40.
41 See Appendix.
42 Studies in the Character of Christ, vi. 102.
43 Encyc. Brit., art. “Mythology.”
44 See Appendix.
45 See p. 117 of Monumental Christianity.
46 See Appendix.