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CONTENTS.
| Lecture VI. | |
| PERUVIAN CULTUS AND FESTIVALS.—MORALS AND THE FUTURE LIFE.—CONCLUSIONS. | |
| Peruvian temples | 215 |
| Sacrifices | 218 |
| Columns of the Sun | 222 |
| Hymns | 223 |
| Religious dances | 224 |
| The four great festivals | 225 |
| Chasing the evil spirit | 227 |
| Occasional and minor festivals | 229 |
| Eclipses | 230 |
| Sorcerers and priests | 230 |
| Moral significance of the Peruvian religion | 232 |
| Communion, baptism and sacerdotal confession | 233 |
| Various ideas as to the future life | 235 |
| Supay, the god of the departed | 237 |
| Conversion of the Peruvians | 239 |
| Are the origins of the American civilizations to be sought in the Old World? | 241 |
| Real significance and importance of analogies observed | 243 |
| Sacrifice | 245 |
| Three stages of religious faith: animistic nature-worship, anthropomorphic polytheism and spiritual monotheism | 246 |
| The genesis of the temple | 249 |
| Primitive independence and subsequent mutual interpenetration of religion and morals | 250 |
| Human nature invincibly religious | 252 |
| The guiding principle | 254 |
| Farewell | 255 |
