[438]. The first on the atheistical system of Sankhya, the second (through Socrates) on the Sophists, the third on English sensualism.
[439]. See Vol. II, pp. 441 et seq.
[440]. It was many centuries later that the Buddhist ethic of life gave rise to a religion for simple peasantry, and it was only enabled to do so by reaching back to the long-stiffened theology of Brahmanism and, further back still, to very ancient popular cults. See Vol. II, pp. 378, 285.
[441]. The articles Buddha and Buddhism in the Ency. Brit., XI ed., by T. W. Rhys Davids, may be studied in this connexion.—Tr.
[442]. See “The Questions of King Milinda,” ed. Rhys Davids.—Tr.
[443]. Of course, each Culture naturally has its own kind of materialism, conditioned in every detail by its general world-feeling.
[444]. To begin with, it would be necessary to specify what Christianity was being compared with it—that of the Fathers or that of the Crusades. For these are two different religions in the same clothing of dogma and cult. The same want of psychological flair is evident in the parallel that is so fashionable to-day between Socialism and early Christianity.
[445]. The term must not be confused with anti-religious.
[446]. Note the striking similarity of many Roman portrait-busts to the matter-of-fact modern heads of the American style, and also (though this is not so distinct) to many of the portrait-heads of the Egyptian New Empire.
[447]. See Vol. II, pp. 122 et seq.