74 SYMBIOGENESIS 



ancient or modern, at once so just and so merciful, so tender to the 

 weak and poor, as the Jewish law ; and, if the Gospels are to be trusted, 

 Jesus of Nazareth himself declared that he taught nothing but that 

 which lay, implicitly, or explicitly, in the religious and ethical system 

 of his people. 



The cardinal feature implicitly and explicitly of the 

 Jewish law as, indeed, even more pronouncedly so of that of 

 the Buddha is justice, including to a considerable extent 

 justice to and sympathy with the lower creation, i.e., the 

 recognition of what I have termed bio-morality. Apparently 

 the ancient law-givers held what Lancisi so pregnantly 

 expressed in the seventeenth century: " Quale est alimentum, 

 talis est chylus, talis sanguis ; qualis tandem sanguis, tales 

 sunt spiritus." The children of Israel for physiological 

 reasons alone seem likely to survive as the salt of 

 the earth so long as they excel in loyalty to great 

 cosmic principles. Only then will they be able proudly to 

 boast: "Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be 

 removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst 

 of the sea ; though the waters roar and be troubled, though the 

 mountains shake with the swelling thereof." 



