Error's Chains

About this eBook

Author

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton), 1855-1916

Title

Error's chains : How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Original Publication

New York: Willey Brothers & Co., 1883.

Credits

Chris Curnow, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Idols and images -- Worship

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 76838

Release Date

September 8, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.ERROR’S CHAINS:
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.STEEL-PLATE ENGRAVINGS.
6. 6.CONTENTS.
7. 7.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
8. 8.CHAPTER I. THE WORLD’S FIRST WORSHIP.
9. 9.CHAPTER II. WHENCE CAME THE MANY GODS AND IDOLS?
10. 10.CHAPTER III. SACRED AND HEATHEN TRADITIONS.
11. 11.CHAPTER IV. THE SUBJECT IN A NUTSHELL. — CHAPTER V. THE LAND OF THE SPHINX.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. THE CHALDEANS. [2]
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. THE JEWS.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. GREECE.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. ROME.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. OUR ANCESTORS.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. INDIA.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. HINDU TEMPLES, IDOLS AND WORSHIP.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. HINDU SACRED BOOKS, FAIRY STORIES AND FIRESIDE TALES.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. JAPAN.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV. POPULAR GODS AND SHRINES OF SHINTOISM.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. THE DARK CONTINENT.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. THE ABORIGINES OF AMERICA.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. THE ISLANDS OF THE SEAS.
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. [4] THE KARENS AND THEIR TRADITIONS.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX. THE FIRE-WORSHIPERS.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. CHINA AND HER PHILOSOPHERS.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. THE TAOIST SACRED BOOKS AND GODS.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. CONFUCIUS AND THE CLASSICS.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. CONFUCIAN TEMPLES AND WORSHIP.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. HOME-LIFE UNDER CONFUCIANISM.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI. BUDDHA, THE “LIGHT OF ASIA.”
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII. THE BUDDHIST BIBLE, THE “THREE BASKETS,” AND ITS TEACHINGS.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII. THE GROWTH OF BUDDHISM—THE BUDDHIST ORDER OF MENDICANTS.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX. BUDDHISM IN INDIA AND CEYLON.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXX. BURMAH.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI. SIAM.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII. THIBET.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIII. CHINA—CONTINUED.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIV. JAPANESE BUDDHISM.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXV. MOHAMMEDANISM.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVI. MOHAMMEDAN MOSQUES AND WORSHIP.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVII. WINNING THE WORLD TO THE WORSHIP OF THE ONE GOD.
44. 44.INDEX. — FOOTNOTES:

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