Our Heritage of Thought

by Barclay Lewis Day

This book is simply an earnest endeavour to find out facts. The author offers to readers and scholars material for thought, from which each must deduce his own inferences and draw his own conclusions. This book deals with Egyptian Thought; Babylonian Thought; Semitic thought--Assyrians, Phoenicians, Jewa; Hindu Thought--Rig-veda, Samkhya, Yoga, Vedanta, Buddhism, Bhagavad-Gita; Chinese Thought; Aryan Thought; Greek Thought--Homeric Poems, The Mysteries, Pythagoreanism, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism; Alexandrian Thought--Hellenistic Epock, Philo Judaeus, Hermes Tris-megistus, Gnosticism, Essenism, Clemens Alexandrinus, Origen, Plotinus; Confusion of Thought; Thought in Western Europe--Druidic thought, Mediaeval thought, Giordano Bruno, Spinoza, Kant; Recent Thought in Western Europe--Schopenhauer, Comte, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer; Abstract of the Inheritance.