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The Universality and Similarity of Race Traditions—Their General

Support of the Old Testament History—Traditions of the Creation

Found in India, China, among the Northern Turanians and some

African Tribes—The Fall of Man as Traced in Assyria and among the

Hindus—The Buddhists of Ceylon, Mongolians, Africans and Tahitans

had Similar Traditions—The Flood—Traditions of the Chinese, the

Iranians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Peruvians—The

Prevalence of Piacular Sacrifice and Tokens of a Sense of

Guilt—Traditions or Traces of Substitution Found in the

Vedas—Faint Traces in the Religion of the Egyptians—Traditions of

the Iroquois—Prophecies Looking to Divine Deliverers—The Tenth

Avatar of Vishnu yet to Come as a Restorer of Righteousness—The

Influence of the Tradition as Utilized by a Missionary—A Norse

Deliverer and Millennium—The Prediction of the Cumæan Sibyl Forty

Years before the Birth of Christ—Prevailing Conceptions of some

Mediator between God and Man—The Hindu Krishna as an

Example—Changes in Buddhism from the Old Atheism to Theism, and

even to a Doctrine of Salvation by Faith—A Trinity and at last a

Saviour—All the False Systems Claiming the Teachings and the

Character of Christ.