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“The Buddha’s doctrine of Anicca (transitoriness) is confirmed.
“Science has proved that the course of the Universe is a grouping and dissolution and regrouping.
“The trend of Modern Science is the trend of an ultimate reality, unity and diversity of ego.
“Modern Science is the echoing of the Buddhists doctrines of transitoriness (annica) and of egolessness (anatta).”
Mr. E. G. Taylor, in his “Buddhism and Modern Thought,” says:
“Man has been ruled by external authority long enough. If he is to be truly civilized, he must learn to be ruled by his own principles. Buddhism is the earliest ethical system where man is called upon to have himself governed by himself.
“Therefore a progressive world needs Buddhism to teach it this supreme lesson.”
The Reverend Leslie Bolton, unitarian minister, says :
“I see in the spiritual psychology of Buddhism its most powerful contribution.
“Unitarian Christians like Buddhists reject the external authority of church books or creeds and find in man himself the guiding lamp.
“Unitarians see in Jesus and Gautama noble exponents of the way of life.”
Prof. Dwight Goddard says:
“Among the world’s religious teachers, Buddha alone has the glory of having rightly judged the intrinsic greatness of man’s capacity to work out his salvation without extraneous aid.”
“If the worth of a truly great man consists in his raising the worth of all mankind, who is better entitled to be called truly great than the Blessed One.
“Who instead of degrading him by placing another being over him, has exalted him to the highest pinnacle of wisdom and love.”
Mr. E. J. Mills, author of “Buddhism,” says:
“In no other religion are the values of
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