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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...attraction for the Belgian mind. Professor de Harley, of the ancient and still vigorous University of Louvain, has devoted a great part of his life to mythological and other erudite investigations, and is now devoting his efforts to explaining the sacred books of China. Monseigneur Lamy s studies in Syriac religious leaming are highly valued; and no survey of Belgian literature would be complete without some adequate notice of one of its chief living representatives, Comte Goblet d Alviella was long director of the Revue de Belgique, has been a Senator, and is at present, for the second time, Rector of Brussels University. He is also closely linked with advanced thought and inquiry in England, and his principal works on religious history have been translated into English. In 1891 he was chosen to deliver the Hibbert Lectures at Oxford, taking as his subject the Origin and Growth of the Conception of God. He accompanied the Prince of Wales on the historic India tour as correspondent of the Imlependance Belgc. There has just been issued from the press of Ernest Levoux, Paris, a volume, of 200 closely-printed pages, under the title Ce que l Inde doit a la Grece; des Influences Classiques dang I3, Civilisation de l Inde. In this fresh and opportune cont;-ibu tion to the exposition of what India owes to Greece, Count Goblet d Alviella incorporates his recent lectures before the Royal Academy of Belgium and authoritatively treats a subject of serious importwhich has not received in England the consideration it deserves. Count Goblet, who still holds in Brussels University the chair of History of Religions, deals at length with the philosophical and religious side of the...