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Niles, Henry Thayer, 1825-1901

"Or, The Buddha and the Christ, Part I"


"Good king, our deer is struck," Asita said,
"If this love cure him not, nothing can cure."

[1]Lieutenant-General Briggs, in his lectures on the aboriginal races
of India, says the Hindoos themselves refer the excavation of caves and
temples to the period of the aboriginal kings.
[2]The art of irrigation, once practiced on such a mighty scale, now
seems practically a lost art but just now being revived on our western
plains.
[3]"And, that which all faire workes doth most aggrace, The art, which
all that wrought, appeared in no place."
--Faerie Queene, B. 2, Canto 12.
[4]See Miss Gordon Cumming's descriptions of the fields of wild dahlias
in Northern India.
[5]By far the finest display of the mettle and blood of high-bred
horses I have ever seen has been in the pasture-field, and this
description is drawn from life.
[6]Once, coming upon a little prairie in the midst of a great forest, I
saw a herd of startled deer bound over the grass, a scene never to be
forgotten.
[7]See Miss Gordon Cumming's description of a hill covered with this
luminous grass.
[8]There can be no doubt that the fire-worship of the East is the
remains of a true but largely emblematic religion.
[9]The difference between the Buddhist idea of a deva and the Christian
idea of an attendant angel is scarcely perceptible.
[10]The Brahmans claim that Buddha's great doctrine of universal
brotherhood was taken from their sacred books and was not an
originality of Buddha, as his followers claim.


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