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listening to amusing legends or in making collections of 
Jatakas? I believe that those spiritual wants could not but 
lead on to asystem of thought, and a scheme of life which 
connected themselves with altogether different centres—to 
a system of thought which endeavoured to fathom the mystery 
of the suffering of the world ; to a scheme of life which in all 
its details had no other aim, but to escape from that suffering. 
Ido not overlook the circumstance that the enormous fer- 
thought. It goes without saying that the task of thorouglily 
investigating those legends, in the first place the Jatakas, must 
not on that account be neglected; and the accomplishment 
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of the Jatakas, which we know to be no 
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ich have to be presupposed 
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