Excerpt from The Teaching of Zarathushtra: Eight Lectures and Addresses Delivered to Parsis in Bombay An address delivered to Parsis at the Bengali School Hall Friday, February 1lth, 1916. I find it hard to express the feelings with which I come to address this large and representative meeting of Parsis. My interest in your community began thirty years ago, when as an undergraduate I began the study of the Avesta under my venerated guru, Professor Cowell, Professor of Sanskrit in Cambridge University. That great Orientalist, and great and good man, deserved well of Iranian as well as of Indian studies. It was he who taught his friend Edward Fitz Gerald Persian, and put in his hands that Persian poem of Omar Khaiyyam, which in his interpretation was to pass from the masterpieces of Asia to take its place among the masterpieces of British literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.