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Certain Buddhist doctrines read curiously like pages from modern scientific treatises. The Buddhist Sutra anticipates the theory of evolution in such statements as "all life emerges from a certain concentration of matter in the form of a nucleus" (i.e., cell). Professor Einstein holds that perception is generally false because relative. Buddhists likewise deny truth to all appearances...
Died. Dr. Maurice Bloomfield, 73, internationally famed among philologists and orientalists, professor of Sanscrit at Johns Hopkins University, first to edit from the original Sanscrit the Grihyasamgraha of Gobhilaputra, and the Sutra of Kaucika; in San Francisco; of heart disease...