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dha and Buddbism delivered at South Place Institute says “If you will not find in Bud. dhism the promise of miraculous consolations that only a supernatural religion can venture to hold out, you will find the encouraging and ennobling faith that man has within himself a strength and virtue that can render. hii independent of all stic! consolations. Buddhism as I have said, stands out as the one religion that bids man trust himself, that calls upon him to raise himself by his own strength, to govern and control and form himself; that assures him that there is no stiength outside of himself to help him, but also none that can prevail against him, if he conquer and hold the sovereignty over himself.” We need not add here that what Mrs. Macdonald has said about Buddhism. applies equally to Jainism.
In concluding this comparison of the two. orders we shall mention a marked point of difference, pointed out by Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle. The Jain monastic order included
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