riiopR88f}H r//;<7/ou- A\/ / i'"/ rimy. 



race. It is certain that it has often done so.* But it H 

 equally certain that there iiuve been individuals, and great 



al communities, in which the absence of the latter 

 beli.-f has neither weakened moral earnestnch.-. 



i devotional fervor." 1 have elsewhere stated that 



"f the best men of my acquaintance men loft . in 

 thought and heneticent in act belong to a clas.- 



the belief referred to alone. They derive 



it neither stimulus nor inspiration, while I say it 

 with regret were I in quest of persons who. in rejja 

 tiie liner endowments of human eh;, inked 



with the unendowed, I should find some chn: 

 samples among the noisier defenders of the orthodox 

 lelief. These, however, are but " hai. nens " on 



Ij the wider data referred I .fessor Knight 



constitute, therefore, a welcome corroboration of my ex- 



ice. Again, my excellent critic, Professor Black ie. 

 describes Buddha as being "a great deal more ti 

 propli -ional, and alto^-ther transcendental 



incarnation of moral perfection."! And yet, " what 

 Buddha preached was a gospel of pure human ethics, 

 divorced not only from Brahma and the Brahminic Trinity. 

 but even from the existence of ' J These civilized 



dlarit voices from the North contract pleasantly with 



it-barons whoops which sometimes come to us along 

 same meridian. 



king backward from my present standpoint over the 



~t, a boyhood fond of play and physical action, 



but .. school work, lies Defon- me. The a\. 



did not arise from intellectual apathy or want of ap; 



for knowledge, but simply from the fact that my earliest 



rs lacked the power of imparting vitality to what 



au^ht. Athwart all play and amusement, however, 



a thread of seriousness ran through my character; and 



a sleepless night of my childhood has been passed, 



fretted by the question " \Vho made G<> I was well 



* I* tliis really curtain? Infttoad of standing in tin- relation ..f cattae 

 may not tli- l.-rajr" and " rulaxat: 



jx-rhupM, flowing" from rointiiuii ln^turic aotoedaabtf 

 .iiural Ilihtory of AllieUmi." p. 130. 



