ANCIENT RELIGION AND MODERN THOUGHT. BY WILLIAM SAMUEL LILLY. SECOND EDITION. Ist nicht der Kern der Natur Menschen im Herzen ? GOETHE. LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED. 1885. (All rights reserved.) 12-15-38 J. A 11-17-38 TO THE MARQUIS OF RIPON, K.G. MY DEAR LORD RIPON, I HAD hoped to dedicate to you this volume when it was originally published, in the spring of last year. The accidental delay of a letter deprived me of that pleasure. I regret the accident the less, now that, with your kind permission, I am able to write your name upon the first page of this second edition, because the favour with which the book has been received encourages me to think that what I am offering you is not wholly worthless. You return to us from a country where you have had abundant opportunities of observing the actual working of more than one of those vast non-Christian religious systems whose claims upon the attention of every student of man and society are just now of such pressing interest and importAnd it is a satisfaction to me to know that ance. a |