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nor change of any kind can affect him. He is Yugat- 

 brabhu, or " Lord of the world," and of all worlds, 

 except in so far as the worlds, by their essential 

 nature, are necessarily condemned to an ever-changing 

 development of new manifestations of misery in 

 which respect he can do little more than point to 

 the road of suffering and abnegation by which he 

 has himself obtained emancipation. But from this 

 point Jainism departs most grossly from philosophi- 

 cal Budhism, and not only assigns to the Ti'rthankara 

 a series of heavens, but also enlarges upon his physi- 

 cal perfections upon the curling of his hair, the 

 fragrance of his body, and the beauty of his form; 

 and the sacred Hindu syllable " Om " is used in 

 adoration of them, as it has been introduced into 

 the universal Lama prayer. In all this the influence 

 of Brahmanism is evident, and also a tendency of 

 the highest speculations to degrade into the grossest 

 and most fantastic materialism. From this point Jain- 

 ism descends into endless hair-splitting in thought, 

 and an endless variety of material idolatry in practice, 

 into which it would be most unprofitable to follow it. 

 Brahmanism has followed the same course, to the 

 destruction of the national life of India, and the ruin 

 of the Indian mind. I wish there were fewer indica- 

 tions than there are unfortunately at present of a 

 similar process of running to useless seed going on in 

 the thought and religion of Europe ; but it may be 

 hoped that Europe has too strong and healthy a sense 



