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CHAPTER V. WHAT SCHOLARSHIP HAD TO SAY ON THE VARIOUS SYSTEMS OF RELIGION. THE dead religions of mankind, treated on the fifth day by Professor G. S. Goodspeed, are the prehistoric, the more ancient Semitic, the Egyptian, the Celtic heathen, the Teutonic heathen, the Greek, and the Roman. Miss Alice C. Fletcher on the twelfth day dealt with North American Indian ideas. In the scientific section, on the third day, African ideas were set forth by Rev. B F. Kidder; New Hebrides traditions by Rev. John G. Paton ; and primitive culture views of man by Professor L. Marrillier. The study of all religions was treated on the fifth day by Professor C. P. Tiele, by Mrs. E. R. Sunderland, and by Mgr. C. D. D'Harlez. The sympathy of religions was expounded on the eighth day by Col. T. W. Higginson. J. A. S. Grant presented ancient Egyptian religion on the fifth day. The Brahman system was treated on the second day by Rev. M. Phillips and by M. N. DVivedi. On the seventh day Mr. Nagarkar dealt with the social aspects of the Hindu system. Its religious faith was especially expounded on the ninth day by Swami Vivekananda. The theistic new departure known as the Brahmo-Somaj was Mr. Mozoomdar's subject on the third day, and Mr. Nagarkar's on the fifteenth day. Hindu thought in contact with Christian, Rev. R. A. Hume treated on the sixteenth day. The Jain Hindu theory was expounded on the fifteenth day by V. A. Ghandi. The Buddhist system was the subject, on the third day, of a paper by Z. Noguchi, and again in its relation with Christi- anity of a paper by K. R. M. Hirai. H. Toki spoke on Jap- anese Buddhism, on the fourth day, and a paper by Prince Chandidrat on that of Siam was presented on the fifth day. On the sixth day a paper by B. Yatsubuchi set forth some aspects of Buddhism, and on the eighth day Shaku Soyen 204