[9] I should perhaps say that in the case of Buddha I have been able to consult the original Pāli documents. In the case of Confucius and the Chinese I have had to depend on translations.
[10] See appendix on Chinese primitivism.
[11] See, for example, Majjhima (Pāli Text Society), I, 265. Later Buddhism, especially Mahāyāna Buddhism, fell away from the positive and critical spirit of the founder into mythology and metaphysics.
[12] Buddha expressed on many occasions his disdain for the Vedas, the great traditional authority of the Hindus.
[13] I have explained the reasons for giving this place to Bacon in chapter II of Literature and the American College.
[14] Eth. Nic., 1179 a.
[15] I scarcely need remind the reader that the extant Aristotelian writings which have repelled so many by their form were almost certainly not meant for publication. For the problems raised by these writings as well as for the mystery in the method of their early transmission see R. Shute, History of the Aristotelian Writings (1888). The writings which Aristotle prepared for publication and which Cicero describes as a “golden stream of speech” (Acad. II, 38, 119) have, with the possible exception of the recently recovered Constitution of Athens, been lost.
[16] See his Essai sur le genre dramatique sérieux.
[17] Quoted in Grimm’s Dictionary.
[18] Ex lectione quorundam romanticorum, i.e. librorum compositorum in gallico poeticorum de gestis militaribus, in quibus maxima pars fabulosa est.