Excerpt from Essays: On the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis The author of these Essays intended, after his return from India, to expand them into a comprehensive work on the Zoroastrian Religion but this design, postponed from time to time, was finally frustrated by his untimely death. That he was not spared to publish all his varied knowledge on this subject, must remain for ever a matter of regret to the student of Iranian antiquities. In other hands, the changes that could be introduced into this second edition were obviously limited to such additions and alterations as the lapse of time and the progress of Zoroastrian studies have rendered necessary. In the first Essay, the history of the European researches has been extended to the present time; but, for the sake of brevity, several writings have been passed over unnoticed, among the more valuable of which those of Professor Hiibschmann may be specially mentioned. Some account has also been given of the progress of Zoroastrian studies among the Parsis themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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