[2094] Cases of adoption of alien cults bodily are here of course excluded; in such cases the cults are to be referred to the creators and not to the borrowers.
[2095] In some forms of Brahmanism, in Buddhism, and in some modern systems this Power is impersonal or undefined.
[2096] On Gautama's attitude toward divine beings cf. Rhys Davids, Buddhism, p. 87 f.; Hopkins, Religions of India, p. 333 f.
[2097] W. D. Whitney, Princeton Review, May, 1881.
[2098] Kuenen, National Religions and Universal Religions (Hibbert Lectures, 1882); Tiele, Elements of the Science of Religion, i, 43 ff.; Jastrow, Study of Religion, p. 89 ff.
[2099] Confucian China and Shintoist Japan are excluded; but in both these countries Buddhism is widespread. Pure Confucianism is not a religion, and the old Shinto is no longer believed in by educated Japanese.
[2100] Cf. Tiele, Elements of the Science of Religion, Index, s.v.
[2101] Myths, it may be remarked, are not confined to the uncivilised and the old national cults; they are found in all great religious systems.
[2102] See, in this connection, the account of the faith of the philosopher Sallustius, the Emperor Julian's friend, by Professor Gilbert Murray, "A Pagan Creed," in the English Review for December, 1909. The term 'pagan' now has a connotation that is singularly out of accord with the character of a man like Sallustius.
[2103] § 14 f.