In reference to the question of the necessity or importance of revelations from the Creator, it is interesting to examine how far those nations that have been most advanced in intellectual development, have secured this system of common sense, independently of the revelations contained in the Bible—revelations which also have been more or less incorporated by Mohammed into the Koran. In a brief review of the pagan systems, that of Boodhism occupies the first place, as one which has had longest and largest control over civilized pagandom—one which has been most unimpeded by resistance, and one which now controls _one half_ the human race. We have seen that the common‐sense system teaches an eternally self‐ existent Creator, perfect in knowledge, wisdom, power and benevolence, administering a perfect system by laws—his chief design being to produce the most possible happiness with the least possible evil. It teaches also, that the right _voluntary_ action of mind, as a part of this system, consists in _good willing_ toward the Creator, toward self, and toward our fellow‐beings, _according to the laws_ of God, so as to secure what is _best_ for all concerned—making it imperative that self be made subordinate to the public good. It teaches also, that the most effective mode of securing this right action is, first, by imparting a _knowledge_ of these laws and their sanctions, and thus influencing mind by the motives of _hope_ and _fear_; next, by the motive influences of _love_, _gratitude_, _sympathy_ and _example_, as mutually exercised by God, our fellow‐men and self. Finally, it teaches that all questions as to what is right and wrong, are to be regulated with reference to the risks and dangers of a _future life_, and not with chief reference to this life alone—and that in this estimate the interests of self are to be made subordinate to those of the commonwealth. We will now notice how far the system of Boodh corresponds with that of common sense. This religion(13) is one in which there is no intervention of any supreme God, or any self‐existent being, or any Creator; on the contrary, all souls and all the universe exist from eternity. All souls from eternity have gone on transmigrating from one body to another, rising or falling in the scale of existence according to their merit or demerit. Boodh is a general name for a divinity or god. There have been innumerable Boodhs in different worlds and different ages, but in this world only four. These four are beings who have risen by merit through various transmigrations, and then became incarnate in human bodies. At last they were annihilated, none of them being now in existence—so that this world for centuries has been without any God.