Mr. Lillie, who is a member of the Royal Asiatic Society, has written this work professedly as an answer to the Hibbert Lectures of 1881, delivered by Dr. Rhys Davids. Among the positions of Dr. Davids that he sets himself to controvert are (1) that Buddha preached flat atheism; (2) that man does not exist in any form after death; (3) that he despised mysticism, and disbelieved in anything outside of the world of matter. He thinks that Dr. Davids' sympathies with Comtism are the cause of his perversions, and that -he is a ...
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Mr. Lillie, who is a member of the Royal Asiatic Society, has written this work professedly as an answer to the Hibbert Lectures of 1881, delivered by Dr. Rhys Davids. Among the positions of Dr. Davids that he sets himself to controvert are (1) that Buddha preached flat atheism; (2) that man does not exist in any form after death; (3) that he despised mysticism, and disbelieved in anything outside of the world of matter. He thinks that Dr. Davids' sympathies with Comtism are the cause of his perversions, and that -he is a confused and untrained thinker, which he certainly is not. Although we are inclined to agree with at least some of Mr. Lillie's conclusions, his own loose thinking and somewhat flippant argumentation contrast very unfavorably with the seriousness and carefulness of Dr. Davids. We find it impossible to agree with all his positions. For example, where is the authority for affirming that Buddhism is 'the one religion virgin (sic) of coercion?' This certainly cannot apply to many of the great branches of the Protestant faith. Those to whom Buddha is only a name will here find much information upon the great Eastern religious leader. Buddha was a religious reformer who died 470 years before the Christian era. Mr. Lillie claims as some of the results of his life that the most formidable priestly tyranny the world has ever seen perished before his attack; that the institution of caste was assailed and overthrown; that polygamy was for the first time pronounced immoral, and slavery condemned; that woman was for the first time considered man's equal, and allowed to develop her spiritual life; that all bloodshed was rigidly forbidden; that the awakening of the spiritual life of the individual was for the first time substituted for religion by body corporate; that religious propagandism was for the first time introduced in the missionary and the preacher; and that Buddhism effected great successes by moral means alone. Some idea of the power and tenacity of the religion may be gathered from the fact that its adherents are still calculated to number about one-third of the whole human race. While the reader of this little book will gain much information about the founder of Buddhism, he will be able to perceive as he reads the vast points of superiority which the simple Christian religion has over the religion here explained. In the nature of things, the system of Buddha, though still powerful, must now be a slowly decaying system instead of an advancing one. There are conditions at work which must inevitably lead to its dissolution. - The British Quarterly Review , Vol, 79
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