24>> ee v. prof. james hope moulton. d.lit.. d.c.l., etc., on 



Discussion. 



The Chairman, in opening the discussion, desired to express the 

 thanks of the Meeting to Professor Moulton for the important 

 paper to which they had all listened with so much interest and 

 profit. 



Mr. Walter Maunder : I should like to take the opportunity 

 of expressing my thanks to Professor Moulton for his paper, both 

 on behalf of the Meeting, and on my own personal account, and I 

 should also like to thank him in your name for his ready consent, 

 when I approached him about a year ago, to come and deliver this 

 address on this day. 



Some three or four years ago. Professor Moulton gave me my 

 first introduction to the Persian sacred books, by asking me my 

 solution of an astronomical problem arising out of a reference in the 

 Bundahis. I first of all read Professor Moulton's charming little book 

 on the Early Religious Poetry of Persia, and then he lent me the 

 Bundahi<, of which, as the Meeting will have learnt from the paper 

 read here a week ago, my wife made much greater use than I 

 was able to do. 



There is one point about the Zoroastrian faith to which Professor 

 Moulton has alluded in his paper, which seems to me of 

 fundamental importance. About a year ago, I was talking with 

 one of our Associates, an eminent surgeon in the Indian service, 

 who, by his skill, has been able to confer great benefits upon 

 leading members of all the principal faiths of India. Parsees, Sikhs, 

 Mahometans, Hindus, and in that way has come into a more 

 intimate and friendly relation with all of them than perhaps any- 

 one else of whom I know, and I was telling him that, from certain 

 astronomical references that I had come across in some of the Parsee 

 books, I had concluded that at one time in the distant past, the 

 Zoroastrian faith had prevailed in the Panjab, but that, so far as I 

 knew, there was no record of Zoroastrianism being driven out of 

 the Panjab, though it must have been. My friend replied, "Zoro- 

 astrianism and Hinduism cannot tolerate one another : one of the 

 two must go down, for there is this fundamental difference between 

 them : the Zoroastrian believes in the Resurrection, but the Hindu 

 looks for Re-incarnation. n The difference is fundamental, because 

 faith in the Resurrection means that we look for eternal life as the 



