It is from these isolated thinkers, however, and from their literary compositions, that we are apt to form our notions of what Buddhism was, while, as a matter of fact, not one in a thousand would have been capable of following these metaphysical speculations. To the people at large Buddhism was a moral and religious, not a philosophical reform. Yet even its morality has a metaphysical tinge. The morality which it teaches is not a morality of expediency and rewards. Virtue is not enjoined because it necessarily leads to happiness. No; virtue is to be practised, but happiness is to be shunned, and the only reward for virtue is that it subdues the passions, and thus prepares the human mind for that knowledge which is to end in complete annihilation. There are ten commandments which Buddha imposes on his disciples.[71] They are-- 1. Not to kill. 2. Not to steal. 3. Not to commit adultery. 4. Not to lie. 5. Not to get intoxicated. 6. To abstain from unseasonable meals. 7. To abstain from public spectacles. [Footnote 69: Helps, _The Spanish Conquest_, vol. iii. p. 503: "Que cosa tam inquieta non le parescia ser Dios."] [Footnote 70: On the servitude of the gods, see the "Essay on Comparative Mythology," _Oxford Essays_, 1856, p. 69.] [Footnote 71: See Burnouf, 'Lotus de la bonne Loi,' p. 444. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, 'Du Bouddhisme,' p. 132. Ch.F.Neumann, 'Catechism of the Shamans.'] 8. To abstain from expensive dresses. 9. Not to have a large bed. 10. Not to receive silver or gold.