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Twenty-one years ago, Dr. Jones, a fledgling missionary, went to India. To the impregnable land of Buddha, of Kabir and Nanak he brought the message and life of Christ. He worked hard; there were the inevitable depressions and exaltations; at times "there were several collapses...
...author in sensing what the reader knows and what needs explanation, so if the book had not been tested on an audience for timings and proportions. But with judicious skimming these shortcomings can be obviated, and there is compensation in the sympathetic treatment of the teachings of Buddha and Zoroaster, in the admiration for the Samurai and for the innovations of the founders of the United States, and in the personal anecdotes of the author's experiences with the administrators of government in African tribes and in post-War Russia...
...Amid the vast confusion of trash of every form, from cosmetics to detective story magazines, that is flooding Europe and America, the overthrow of our civilization seems imminent. We can avoid it only by following the teachings of the greatest men that have ever lived, among them, Plato. Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, the great Hindu teachers, and last and best exponent of all ideas. Jesus Christ...
Later, in China, flowered the sublimest school of Buddhism, the Mahayana (Great Vehicle). And so, it is explained, from China there now issues "the greatest 20th century disciple of Buddha...
Buddhists believe in reincarnation and, therefore, that life ceases never. When a Buddhist becomes enlightened and good he may himself become a Buddha. Then he reaches Nirvana where there is rest and surcease from the pains of life and death...