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great importance of the linguistic aspect of the subject; and, 
lastly, to indicate several grand unities which run throughout 
existence, and several harmonious principles which supply 
illustration and explanation of physical and mental phenomena. 
However we may differ from our ancestors we shall do well to 
believe with them that we are all children of the one great 
Father, who has reserved for them that love and obey Him a 
glorious future, such as appeared through a glass dimly to the 
poet-prophet Pindar, when he exclaimed, — 
u Pious spirits, tenanting the sky, 
Chant praises to the Mighty One on high.” * 
THE RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE ARYANS OF 
NORTHERN EUROPE. 
Synopsis. 
1. The Aryan Race in the Holethnic Period. 
2. Modern Investigation into Aryan and Proto-Aryan Speech. 
3. The Rise of Mythology. 
4. Certain Primary Unities. 
5. The Argument from General Consent. 
6*. The Wends, their several Divisions and Religious Belief. 
7. The Teutons, and their several Divisions. — German Religious Belief. 
8. Scandinavian Sacred Literature. 
9. The Norse Divinities. 
10 Analysis of the Norse Divinities. 
11. The Norse KosmogoDy. 
12. The Opponents of the Gods. 
13. Analysis of the Opponents of the Gods. 
14. The Law of Kosmic Order. 
15. Ragnarok. 
16. Beliefs respecting the End of the World. 
17. The Regeneration. 
18. Odhinn and the Supreme Aryan God. 
19. The Law of Reduplication. 
20. The Illustration of the Metaphysical through the Physical. 
APPENDIX A. 
Illustrations of the Primitive Unity of the Aryan Language. 
APPENDIX B. 
Primary Roots of Proto-Aryan according to Fick (the “ alpha speech ”). 
* Ev<7t/3£o»v 5’ t’rrovpavioi vaioicrai 
Mo\7ralg ycacapa y'tyav atidovT* lv vyvoig (Threnoi, Frag. iii.). 
