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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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