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of Christianity, but will in the end only help to mature our insight into the essential nature of Christianity, and so elevate our religious convictions. It will bring out that nobler Christianity which aspires to be the cosmic religion of universal truth.... It will serve both Christians and Buddhists as a help to penetrate further into the spirit of their faith, so as to see its full width, breadth, and depth."

      The theological formation which has gradually developed into what may be called the crust of creeds, and which has probably now reached its limits of hardening, is seen, from day to day, under varying influences, to be cracking into wider and deeper fissures. The curious inquirer now possesses ample opportunities of looking below the surface and observing some of the conditions that have, in the course of ages, given rise to the accretions.

      The deeper we look, or the further our horizon recedes, the greater perhaps is the sense of bewilderment and isolation; yet so to wander is, at any rate, to be free; and we need not just at present fear that ultimate knowledge is nescience, when our vision will no longer be bounded by any horizon, and when even vision itself will at last disappear.

      As it has been stated of science, so it may be affirmed of all inquiry, "that at a certain stage of its development a degree of vagueness best consists with fertility."

      Christianity and Buddhism possess three prominent features—"the metaphysical," "the ethical," and "the biographical." As the two latter have been so exhaustively contrasted in connection with these systems, I have confined myself in the following pages chiefly to a consideration of their mystical relationship.

      D. M. S.

      Caledonian United Service Club, Edinburgh.

       February, 1899.

SANSCRIT AND PALI TERMS USED.

       Table of Contents

Samskāra Sankhāra	Includes everything of which impermanence may be predicated, or, which is the same thing, everything which springs from a cause. (Childers.) Gestaltungen—Oldenberg's Buddha, German edition. Conformations—English translation of Oldenberg's Buddha.
Skandhas	The five attributes or elements of being—form, sensation, perception, discrimination, and consciousness.
Bhikkhu Bhikshu	Mendicant, monk, friar.
Akāsa	Space.
Samsāra	The ocean of Birth and Death, transiency, worldliness, the restlessness of a worldly life, the agitation of selfishness, the vanity fair of life. (Paul Carus.)
Mahāyāna	The great vehicle—viz., of salvation.
Hināyāna	The little vehicle—viz., of salvation.
Karma	Action, work, the law of action, retribution, results of deeds previously done, and the destiny resulting therefrom. (Paul Carus.)

      Erratum.

      For Professor Oldenberg's Buddhism read everywhere Professor Oldenberg's Buddha: His Life, His Doctrine, His Order.

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