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. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... OUR OWN RELIGION IN ANCIENT PERSIA* (ZOROASTER (ZARATHUSHTRA) AND THE BIBLE). By Professor M1lls. [(th1s essay, which is here for the fourth time edited in English and enlarged, was, in its original form, delivered twice as a public lecture before distinguished audiences in Oxford some years ago. It was soon after, or before, printed in the Nineteenth Century Review of January, 1894, also in its shorter form;--and later, with the consent of the editor of that periodical and of the author, it was translated into Gujarati by Mr. D. N. Coorlawala, an accomplished Parsi of Bombay. In the second edition, see the Open Court of July, 1909, I mentioned that, as I then remembered, it was Mr. Palanji Madan who translated it. I am now happy to correct myself, while I repeat what I then wrote in recognition of the important service rendered by Mr. Palanji Madan in translating my XXXIst Volume of the Sacred Books of the East into Gujarati so far as the translation of the Gathas extended in that work. That translation of this essay into Gujarati was published by the Trustees of the Sir J. Jejeebhoy Translation Fund of Bombay in a large edition. The late very distinguished Editor of the monthly mentioned seemed gratified that the article was to be thus reproduced in that Oriental language, and he would beyond a doubt not object to this enlarged edition of it appearing as a 'University Lecture' here. * The third edition appeared in the Asiatic Quarterly Review for October, 1911, and in a later number under the title 'The preChristian Religion in Ancient Persia.' I (It has also just lately been translated into Italian by a talented author, entirely upon his own suggestion and initiative, and has now been issued in that form, --and also by a gifted French...