The Buddha of Christendom : a book for the present crisis / by Robert Anderson.

  • Robert Anderson
Date:
1899
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Credit: The Buddha of Christendom : a book for the present crisis / by Robert Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not a few who pose as scholars, and claim even to be teachers, suppose that this is what the Bible teaches! No book in all the world is so little understood. No book has been so wronged by its adherents, so travestied and maligned by critics. The Transcendental philosophy has taught us that ideas of a certain kind give proof, not of the power and liberty of the human mind, but of its subjection. In the wild license of fancy, for example, we can imagine the annihilation of the universe, nothing remaining by which to measure space or time ; but no madman’s dream can compass the thought that space and time could ever cease to exist. By the law of our being, the mind is governed by these ideas and cannot divest itself of them. And our conception of the existence of God is in the same category. Were it otherwise a revela- tion would of course be impossible; for a revelation implies this knowledge on the part of those to whom it is addressed.^ The Bible, therefore, nowhere asserts the existence of the Deity; but, assuming it, opens by declaring that “ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” > As Aristotle pointed out, all intellectual teaching is based upon what is previously kiK^wn to the person taught.
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