[Footnote 25: The common view is thus expressed by Oldenberg: "In dem schwülen, feuchten, von der Natur mit Reichthümern üppig gesegneten Tropenlande des Ganges hat das Volk, das in frischer Jugendkraft steht, als es vom Norden her eindringt, bald aufgehört jung und stark zu sein. Menschen und Völker reifen in jenem Lande ... schnell heran, um ebenso schnell an Leib und Seele zu erschlaffen" (_loc. cit_. p. 11).] [Footnote 26: Rhys Davids, _Buddhism_, pp. 160,139.] [Footnote 27: Buddha taught, of course, nothing related to the thaumaturgy of that folly which calls itself today 'Esoteric Buddhism.'] [Footnote 28: That is a sacrifice where no cattle are slain, and no injury is done to living beings.] [Footnote 29: _K[=u]tadanta-sutta_ Oldenberg, _Buddha_, p. 175.] [Footnote 30: Sometimes distinguished from _pari-nirv[=a][n.]a_ as absolute annihilation.] [Footnote 31: Some scholars think that the doctrine of Buddha resembles closely that of the S[=a]nkhya philosophy (so Barth, p. 116), but Müller, Oldenberg, and others, appear to be right in denying this. The Sankhyan 'spirit' has, for instance, nothing corresponding to it in Buddha's system.] [Footnote 32: The twelve Nid[=a]nas are dogmatic, and withal not very logical. "From ignorance arise forms, from forms arises consciousness, from consciousness arise name and bodiness; from name and bodiness arise the six senses (including understanding as the sixth) and their objects; from these arises contact; from this, feeling; from this, thirst; from this, clinging; from clinging arises becoming; from becoming arises birth; from birth arise age and sorrow." One must gradually free himself from the ten fetters that bind to life, and so do away with the first of these twelve Nid[=a]nas, ignorance.] [Footnote 33: _Mah[=a]vagga_, X. 3 (SBE. XVII. 306).] [Footnote 34 36 1: Compare Kern, the _Lotus_, III. 21, and Fausböll, _P[=a]r[=a]yana-sutta_, 9 (1131), the "deep and lovely voice of Buddha." (SBE. XXI. 64, and X. 210.)] [Footnote 35: As Southern Buddhists are reckoned those of Ceylon, Burmah, Siam, etc.] [Footnote 36: As Northern Buddhists are reckoned those of Nep[=a]l, Tibet, China, Corea, Japan, Java, Sumatra, Annam, and Cambodia.] [Footnote 37: "Let your light so shine before the world, that you, having embraced the religious life according to so well-taught a doctrine and discipline, may be seen to be forbearing and mild." (SBE. XVII. 305, David's and Oldenberg's translation.)] [Footnote 38: 'Removing pieces from a pile without moving the remainder' must, we presume, be jackstraws.]