Introduction to the Science of Religion; Four Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution in February and May 1870

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... The following are the names of the scholars who have promised to supply translations: -- Beal, S. Fausboll, V. Bhandarkar, r. G. Jacobi, H. Buhler, G. Jolly, J. Cowell, E. B. Kern, H. Darmestkter, J. Leqge, J. Eggeling, J. Max Muller, F. Oxford, October, 1876. LETTER TO THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF CHRIST CHURCH. Oxford, March 18,18S3. My Deab Dean, When, in the year 1875, I received an invitation from the Austrian Government to transfer my services to Vienna, and to publish there, under the auspices of the Imperial Academy, a Series of Translations of the Sacred Books of the East, it was, I believe, mainly due to your kind exertions that the University invited me to stay at Oxford, and to carry out the same undertaking here, substituting only English for German in the translations which I had originally contemplated. I then submitted to you, and through you to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press and the Secretary of State for India, a general outline of the translations which, if only I could secure the co-operation of Oriental scholars in England, I hoped to bring out in a series of twenty-four volumes. This was in October 1876, and as the time is now approaching when this Series ought to be finished, viz. in October 1884,1 think I ought to render, through you, to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press and the Secretary of State for India, an account of my stewardship. There was in the beginning, as it could hardly have been otherwise, considerable delay. The help of really competent scholars had to be secured, and some time had to elapse before they could prepare their translations. The first volume therefore could not be published before 1879, and now in 1882 the number of volumes published amounts to fourteen only. It would be too long...