Philistines, probably Pelasgi from Crete, 421. 
Philosophy, early Greek, 291.
  " Greek, in Asia Minor, 291.
  " in Italy, 292. 
Phoenicians, their language a form of Hebrew, 400. 
Plato harmonizes realism and idealism, 293.
  " his philosophy completes that of Socrates, 294.
  " his method that of transcendentalism, 294.
  " his idea of God pure and high, 295.
  " Christian element in, 295. 
Pliny, the elder, his view of religion, 345. 
Present work, an essay, or attempt, 1.
  " " companson of religions its object, 1. 
Prophecy, a modification of inspiration, 438. 
Prophets of the Old Testament, men of action, 440.
  " politicians and constitutional lawyers, 440.
  " preferred the moral law to ceremonial, 441.
  " described by Dean Stanley, 441.
  " their inspiration came through a common human faculty, 442.
  " their predictions not always realized, 443.
  " their foresight of Christianity, 443.
  " developed Judaism to its highest point, 443. 
Proverbs, Book of, in the Edda, 365. 
Pontiffs, their authority, 336. 
Positivism, its law of progress examined, 489. 
Puranas, the, much read by the common people, 130.
  " devoted to the worship of Vischnu, 131.
  " extol the power of penances, 132.
  " ideas those of the epics, 132.
  " their philosophy that of the Sunkhya, 132.

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Ramses II. a powerful king B.C. 1400, 233.
  " supposed to be the same as Sesostris, 234.
  " birth of Moses during his reign, 335. 
Recognition of God in nature, best element of Egyptian religion, 257. 
Relation of the religion of the Avesta to the Vedas, 201. 
Results of the survey of ten religions, 489.
  " in regard to their resemblance and difference, 490. 
Resemblance of the Roman Catholic ceremonies to those of Pagan Rome, 350. 
Roman calendar, described, 332. 
Roman Catholic Church, teaches an exclusive spiritualism, 143.
  " " " is eminently a sacrificial system, 143.
  " " " its monastic system an included Protestantism, 145. 
Roman deities adopted from Greece, 326.
  " " manufactured by the pontiffs, 326.
  " " representing the powers of nature, 327.
  " " representing human relations, 328.
  " " presiding over rural occupations, 330.
  " " derived from the Etruscans, 327.
  " empire gave to Christianity its outward form (note), 350.
  " " united the several states of Europe, 350.
  " law, its influence on Western theology, 351.
  " legal notions transferred to theology, 352.
  " mind, wanting in spontaneity, 316.
  " " serious, practical, hard, 316.
  " religion, an established church, 317.