PART II ISOLATED NATIONAL RELIGIONS
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CHAPTER VII BABYLON AND ASSYRIA
People and literature—Worship of spirits—Worship of animals—The great Gods—Mythology—The state religion
CHAPTER VIII CHINA
History of China—The literature of the religion—The state religion of ancient China—Heaven—The spirits—Ancestors—Confucius—His life—His doctrine—Taoism—Buddhism in China
CHAPTER IX THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT
History and literature—1. Animal worship—Theories accounting for it—2. The great Gods—They also are local—Mythology—Dynasties of gods—Ra—Osiris—Ptah—Was the earliest religion monotheistic?—Syncretism—Pantheism—Worship—3. The doctrine of the other life—Treatment of the dead—The spirit in the under-world—The Book of the Dead—Conclusion