PART II. A COMPARISON OF ALL RELIGIONS. BY JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE. He who only knows one religion can no more understand that religion than he who BOSTON: New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street. 1883. PREFACE. THE first part of "Ten Great Religions" was published in 1871. The success it has met with is probably due to the fact that it contains in a compendium an account of the principal religions of the world, sufficiently full for the wants of those who are not special students of this subject. There exist many works on the separate religions, much more thorough, and which enter into a greater detail. But I suppose it would be difficult, even now, to find the chief facts in relation to all of them brought together elsewhere in a single volume. The present work (based on twelve lectures given in the Lowell Institute in the winter of 1881-2) is on a different plan. Instead of describing and discussing each of the great faiths of mankind separately, it attempts to show what they all teach on the different points of human belief. We ask what each declares concerning |