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Albert ReVille; * and in 1886 a section of the religious sciences 

 was formed in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sorbonne. The pro- 

 gress of these studies in France was also much furthered by the 

 establishment of the Muse'e Guimet (1879; since 1888 in Paris), with 

 its collections and library and its liberal subvention of publications, 

 including the first periodical devoted to the subject, the Revue de 

 I'Histoire des Religions (since 1880). In England a long series of 

 Hibbert Lectures, and more recently several of the Gifford Lectures, 

 have contributed to the spread of knowledge and the quickening of 

 interest; while the Sacred Books of the East have made accessible, 

 in translations by eminent scholars, a large part of the religious 

 literature of the world. In Germany the subject has been slow in 

 finding recognition in university programmes of study, though 

 Roth lectured on it at Tubingen from the fifties to his death, and 

 though German scholars have made many of the most valuable 

 contributions to the study. The Archiv fur Religionswissenschaft 

 (since 1898; new series 1904) gives a much-needed organ for the 

 publication of investigation and discussion. 2 In America lectures 

 on the history of religions were given in Harvard University in 

 1854-55, and regularly since 1867; and in more recent years at many 

 other places, among which may be named Boston University, Cornell, 

 Chicago, Yale, and in some of the independent theological schools, 

 as at Andover. Finally, mention must be made of the Parliament 

 of Religions at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, whose 

 published proceedings fill two volumes; of the International Con- 

 gress for the History of Religions in Paris in 1900, and of that which 

 has held its sessions within a few weeks in Basel (August-September, 

 1904). 



On every hand we see a recognition of the importance of the sub- 

 ject and a growing interest in the study. The nineteenth century 

 accomplished much; it is for the scholars of the twentieth century, 

 in all lands, heirs of the labors of their predecessors, encouraged by 

 their success, admonished by their mistakes, to accomplish yet 

 greater things. 



1 ReVille, Albert, Prolegomines de I'Histoire des Religions, 1881 (English 

 translation by A. S. Squire, 1884); Les Religions des Peuples Non-Civilises, 1883, 

 2 vols.; Les Religions du Mexique, de VAmerique Centrale et du Pcrou, 1885; 

 La Religion Chinoise, 1889. 



Other periodicals which should be mentioned are Revue des Religions, 1889 

 s<7<7., and Revue d'Histoire et de Litlerature Religieuses, 1896 sqq. 



