Learned Societies which, during the long years of my literary career, have done me the honour of electing me one of their Foreign, Honorary, or Corresponding Members. Unworthy as I feel of the high distinctions conferred on me, some of them at a very early period of my life, they have been to me not only a precious reward, but at the same time a strong incentive in the production of works which, though they could not hope for popular applause, should secure to me the approval of my fellowworkers. I count as the happiest days of my literary life my election in 1865 as one of the Six Foreign Members of the Royal Sardinian Academy, the other five then being Thiers, Boeckh, Cousin, Grote, and Mommsen; my succeeding, in 1869, Welcker, as one of the Eight Foreign Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and my co-optation in 1874 as one of the Thirty Knights of the Ordre pour le Mérite. If on the title-pages of my books I have generally confined myself to those few honorary titles only, I am truly sorry that this should have been interpreted as an invidious distinction on my part. I feel equally grateful for all the other diplomas that have been bestowed upon me, and all the more so as they came to me entirely unsolicited and unexpected, and as I, in my position at Oxford, had never any equivalent to offer in return. If, in the following list of my patrons and wellwishers, I should have left out the names of any Societies that have conferred on me their honorary fellowship, I hope they will forgive me. Of course, the names of Societies the membership of which is acquired by an annual payment, are not mentioned, nor any distinctions which are conferred for services not purely literary. It may be difficult in thus returning my thanks to separate a feeling of pride from a sense of gratitude, but if any pride can be pardonable, it is surely that of having gained the good opinion of our peers and of our betters. F. MAX MÜLLER, Knight of the Ordre pour le Mérite; Knight of the Order of Maximilian (for Science and Art); Knight Commander of the Corona d'Italia; Foreign Member of the French Institute, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; of the Royal Sardinian Academy; of the Royal Academy of the Lincei at Rome; of the Royal Bavarian Academy; of the Royal Hungarian Academy; of the Royal Irish Academy; of the Royal Society of Upsala; of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston; of the American Philosophical Society; Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Amsterdam; of the Royal Academy of Roumania; of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; of the Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences; of the Royal Society of Literature; of the Royal Historical Society; of the Royal Asiatic Society; of the German Oriental Society; of the Asiatic Society of Bengal; of the Oriental Society at Peking; of the Anjuman-iPanjab; of the Société de Littérature Finnoise at Helsingfors; of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; of the Literary Society of Leyden; of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; of the Ethnographic Society of Paris; of the Folklore Castellano; of the American Oriental Society; of the Archaeological Society of Moscow; of the American Philological Society; of the New Zealand Institute; of the Lituanian Literary Society; Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Berlin; of the Royal Academy of Lisbon; of the Royal Society of Göttingen; of the Royal Society of Palermo; Ph. D. in the University of Leipzig; M. A. Oxford; Honorary Doctor of Laws in the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh; Professor of Comparative Philology, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. OXFORD, Jan. 26, 1887. PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS. Rig-Veda-Samhitâ, The Sacred Hymns of the Brahmans, together with the Commentary of Sâyanâkârya. 6 vols. 4to. 1849-1873. Rig-Veda-Samhitâ, The Sacred Hymns of the Brahmans. Translated and Explained. Vol. I. Hymns to the Maruts. 1869. The Hymns of the Rig-Veda, in the Samhitâ and Pada texts. Reprinted from the Editio Princeps. 2 vols. 1873. Rig-Veda-Prâtisâkhya, Das älteste Lehrbuch der Vedischen Phonetik; Sanskrit Text mit Übersetzung und Anmerkungen. 1869. Hitopadesa, Eine alte indische Fabelsammlung, aus dem Sanskrit zum ersten Mal in das Deutsche übersetzt. 1844. Out of Print. Hitopadesa, Sanskrit Text with Interlinear Transliteration, Grammatical Analysis, and English Translation. 1866. Meghadûta, der Wolkenbote, dem Kâlidâsa nachgedichtet. 1847. Out of Print. Upanishads, translated from Sanskrit. Vols. I and XV, Sacred Books of the East. 1879, 1884. Dhammapada, translated from Pâli. Vol. X, Sacred Books of the East. 1881. Buddhist Texts from Japan. I. The Vagrakkhedikâ, the Diamond-Cutter; edited by F. Max Müller. 1881. II. Sukhâvatî-Vyûha, Description of the Land of Bliss; edited by F. Max Müller and Bunyiu Nanjio. 1883. III. The Ancient Palm Leaves; edited by F. Max Müller, Bunyiu Nanjio, and G. Bühler. 1884. IV. Dharma-Samgraha, an Ancient Collection of Buddhist Technical Terms, by Kenjiu Kasawara; edited by F. M. M. and H. Wenzel. 1885. Essay on Indian Logic, in Thomson's Laws of Thought.' 1853. History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature. Second Edition, 1859. Out of Print. Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners, in Devanagari and Roman Letters. Second Edition, Accentuated. 1870. India, What can it teach us? Course of Lectures delivered at Cambridge. 1883. German Classics from the Fourth to the Nineteenth Century. With Biographical Notices, Translations into Modern German, and Notes. 1858. New Edition, by F. Lichtenstein, adapted to Scherer's History of German Literature,' translated by Mrs. F. C. Conybeare. 1886. Schiller's Briefwechsel mit Herzog Christian von SchleswigHolstein. 1875. Goethe and Carlyle, an Inaugural Address at the English Goethe Society. 1886. Andrea del Sarto's Carità, with three illustrations. 1887. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, in commemoration of the Centenary of its first publication. Translated by F. Max Müller, with Introduction by L. Noiré. 1881. Introduction to the Science of Religion (1870); last edition, 1882. On Missions, a Lecture delivered in Westminster Abbey, Dec. 3, 1873, with an Introductory Sermon by A. P. Stanley. Out of Print. On the Origin and Growth of Religion, Hibbert Lectures, 1878; last edition, 1882. Chips from a German Workshop. 4 vols. 1867-1875. Out of Print. Selected Essays on Language, Mythology, and Religion. 2 vols. 1881. Biographical Essays. 1884. Lectures on the Science of Language, vol. I (1861); vol. II (1864); fourteenth edition, 1886. Proposals for a Missionary Alphabet. 1854. On the Relation of the Bengali to the Aryan and Aboriginal Languages of India. 1847. On the Turanian Languages. Letter to Chevalier Bunsen, 1853. Out of Print. On the Languages of the Seat of War, 1854; second edition, 1855. Out of Print. CONTENTS. THE CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS OF THOUGHT. The meaning of Thought, 1. Materials of Thought, 2. Can Sensations exist by themselves? 3. Dangers of Menagerie Psychology, 5. Arguments derived from the Brain of Animals and Men, 6. Sense better than Reason, 7. Teaching of Animals by Men, 10. Lessons taught a Pike, 10. The Instinct of the Emperor Moth, 13. Use- less arguments derived from the intelligence of Animals, 15. Unperceived Impressions, 17. Abundance of Philo- sophical Terms, 17. Act, Instrument, Result, 19. Sen- sation, Perception, Conception, Naming, 20. Memory, Mind, 20. The Fundamental Character of Sensation, 21. Nihil est in intellectu quod non simul sit in sensu, 21. Can Percepts exist by themselves? 22. Dangers of Nursery Psychology, 22. Space, Time, Causality, 23. Percepts inseparable from Concepts, 25. Percepts of Animals, 26. Anticipation of the Insepar- ableness of Sensation, Perception, and Conception, 28. b PAGES |