ISO JOUBNAL B. A. s. (ceylon). [Vol. VII., Ft. III. 



Then there is immediately thought, feeling and volition which 

 are inseparable from suffering. Buddhism does not attempt to 

 state the properties or attributes of the unlocalized — the eternal 

 —because no matter how carefully a statement is made, the fact 

 of statement will localize it. It is, therefore, beyond all state- 

 ment. It is enough to say — it is Nirvana. 



XVIII. Conclusion. — Buddhism is an interesting study, 

 scientifically, philosophically, religiously, socially, and politically. 

 Scientifically, because science seeks the unification of force and 

 the elements which 1 embody all force ; philosophically, because 

 Buddhism discovers to what the psychological method of 

 introspection leads ; religiously, because when there are so many 

 Buddhists in the world, not believing in a personal God and 

 not yearning to worship Him the fact of religious instincts 

 of man calls for re-examination and re-statement ; socially, 

 because it ignores all ritualism, ceremonies, and "social life in its 

 amplitude and minutude, in its materialism and its subtility of 

 love, and ambition ; and politically, because the convent of the 

 Buddhists subverted the Vedic polity of caste, sacrifice and 

 prior rights, and justified the aspirations of a proleteriat and 

 placed them on a legitimate basis for the first time in the 

 history of man. 



