[252]. Ibid. i. 12; ibid. vol. xiii.
[253]. Ibid. viii. 27. 5; ibid. vol. xvii.; Kullavagga, vi. 1. 3; ibid. vi. 9. 2; ibid. vol. xx.
[254]. Kuenen, Hibbert Lectures, pp. 251 seq. The doctrine that it bore nobler fruit is expressly contradicted by some. See Âpastamba, pres. ii. pat. ix. khan. 23; also pres. ii. pat. ix. k. 24. 15; Sacred Books of the East, vol. ii. pp. 156, 159.
[255]. The way of “Works”—ceremonial and sacrificial religion; the way of “Faith”—devotion (heart) to the deities without works; the way of “Knowledge,” or true enlightenment.—Sir Monier Williams, Buddhism, p. 95.
[256]. Saint-Hilaire, Le Bouddha, etc., p. 152.
[257]. Not without protest, however, by fathers and doctors of the Church. See Hermas, Simil. v.; Clem. Strom. iii.; Tertullian, De Jejunio, p. 123 seq.; De Pallio, p. 181 seq.
[258]. Gieseler, Eccles. Hist. vol. i. pp. 289 seq.; Neander’s Church Hist. vol. iii. pp. 305 seq.
[259]. Hom. on St. Matth. 69, 70.
[260]. Montalembert, Monks of the West, vol. i. p. 319; Neander’s Church History, vol. iii. pp. 338, 339.
[261]. Cassian, Collationes, ii. 5-8; De Instit. Monachi, x.; De capitalibus vitiis, quoted by Farrar, Lives of the Fathers, vol. ii. p. 224; Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, ii. 510.