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future of eternal perfection behind transitory being can not possibly admit of the kingdom of the eternal first beginning only at the point where the world of transient enils, can not conjure it up immediately, as it were out of the Nothing.......... The finite world bears in itself no traces which point to its connection with a world of the eternal In conclusion, he says “If we follow the dialectic consequence only, it is impossible on the basis of this theory of life to conceive how where a series of conditions has run out, annihilating itself, äny thing else is to be recognised as remaining but a vacuum.” It is Oldenburg's opinion that Buddhism ac. tually admits of this proposition, but the official teaching of the church taking advau tage of Buddha's silence on these questions, drew, “a well-meant veil over the picture of the truth, the sight of which threatens the destruction of the unprepared.” Olden. burg seems to defend and justify this policy by saying "There were enough and more Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com