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Excerpt from The Light of Asia and the Light of the World: A Comparison of the Legend, the Doctrine,& the Ethics of the Buddha, With the Story, the Doctrine,& the Ethics of Christ
There is reason to believe that a large class even of Christian people have a most exaggerated idea Of the excellence of the great non-christian religions, and the extent to which their teachings agree with those of the Gospel Of Christ. This remark applies with special force at present to the case Of Buddhism, in which, for various reasons, very many intelligent people, of every variety of religious Opinion, have of late years come to feel a very special interest.
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