5. Races and tribes of mankind, with features that characterise them.

6. Mythologies, and the account they severally give of the divine and

demonic powers, supreme and subordinate, that rule the world.

7. Religions of the world, with their respective credos and objects and

forms of worship.

8. Schools of philosophy, with their theories of things and of the

problems of life and human destiny.

9. Sects and parties, under the different systems of belief or polity,

and the specialities of creed and policy that divide them.

10. Books of the world, especially the sacred ones, and the spiritual

import of them; in particular those of the Bible, on each of which a note

or two is given.

11. Legends and fables, especially such as are more or less of world

significance.

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