Lectures on the Science of Religion - With a Paper on Buddhist Nihilism, and a Translation of the Dhammapada or Path #251086

In beginning to-day a course of lectures on the Sci ence of Religion, — or I should rather say on some pre liminary points that have to be settled before we can enter upon a truly scientific study°of the religions of the world, — I feel as I felt when first pleading in this very place for the Science of Language.