[262]. Monks of the West, vol. i. p. 27.
[263]. Sutta Nipâta, 75-81; Sacred Books of the East, vol. x. p. ii.
[264]. Theod. Eccles. Hist. lib. iv. cap. 26.
[265]. “They prayed for the whole world.”—Chrysost. H. 78, In Johannem.
[266]. Oldenberg, Buddha, etc., pp. 317, 318.
[267]. Mahavagga, viii. 15; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xvii.
[268]. “I am not aware of any instances in which the pariah of the age is mentioned as a member of the Order.” “According to Buddhist dogmatics, a good Sudra or Vaisya could only hope to be re-born as a Kshatrya, and this clearly indicates that the distinctions of castes had by no means vanished or become worthless in Buddha’s consciousness” (Buddha, etc., p. 156).
[269]. Mahavagga, i. 39. 76; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xiii.
[270]. Christianity does not, as Goethe averred, “prefer what is despised and feeble,” but as in God’s eyes nothing is despised and abject, so, in fellowship with the Father, Christ cherished the maimed and lame and blind, though hated of the soul of the natural man, and this disposition will ever be a “mark” or “note” of the true Church of Christ.
[271]. Kuenen, Hibbert Lectures, 1882, p. 284; Rhys Davids, Hibbert Lectures, 1881, p. 155.