 It is the only work where he examines Islam.In the last of three volumes based on these lectures, Hegel discusses at length many different philosophical arguments for the existence of God.The social anthropologist Sir James George Frazer wrote in a 1910 preface to "The Golden Bough", originally published in 1890, that while he had never studied Hegel, his friend James Ward, and the philosopher J. M. E. McTaggart, had both suggested to him that Hegel had anticipated his view of "the nature and historical relations of magic and religion".