The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-18

all India was at his feet One day
he saw his son in the crowd assem-
bled to hear him define memberships:
cease from all sin. get virtue: cleanse
your own heart. Practice benevo-
lence" II was a great moment in
the lives of both. OF course. eau
tama's fame and mode of life had
penetrated to the palace he had left.
and his son, grown to young manhood
invited him to return on visit. eau
tama went back, and all the house.
hold assembled to meet the man who
had left them a handsome young man
in royal robes and returned an old
one with smooth face and shaver
head, clothed in the yellow of men
dicant a bowl in his hand But eau
tama noted that In all that crowd ono
face was absentv-that of his wife.
fasodhara. He sought her gu; In the
private apartments. What meeting
that was. Iasodhara still loved him.
and when she. saw him she fell at
his feet. Then he looked at her in
perfect silence and she left him In
after years, Huddha decided that wo-
men, too, might preach the law, and
established Buddhist nunnerics. So
the story of Abelard and Heloise was
told in India hundreds of years before
1T thrilled France and all the Euro
pean world; for iasodhara became a
convert and entered one and lived
there to the end. From his own tribe,
the Sakyas, and his cousins. the koli-
vans, Buddha mado a great number
OF converts. The all-inclusive nature
Of the Buddha's religion is shown by
a ftlr Iii
followers. One was a barber of great
intellectual capacity. Another was n
first cousin of the prince himself,
whose mothers tribe produced also
Anuruddha, brilliant scholar and
metaphysfcian, afterwards, according
as the Romantic Legend one of our
own. relates, tiautama's gentle, loving
character seems to have as profoundly
affected his people as his theories OF
life and revelations. He lived to DO
propa ganda TO the last Of what pure
thought had taught him HIS body
was tenderly cared for while he was
dying, then burned and the ashes pre-.
served, and the Indian chronicle dc.
clares that the wood Of his funeral
pyre refused to ignite till Buddha had
been worshped, and If his great love
OF hnma nifty be considered, stocks and
stones might we'll refuse to consume
Vastu, hundred miles north and east
of the sacred city, Benares, is now
q mass of ruins. 1t was destroyed in
Gautama's lifetime. But the truth Of
the Indian historical records OF his
archaeological discovery of the year
1898, when a pillar was found there
erected and inscribed in the third cen
fury B., c.. which gives that as the
cayations made since then reveal
buildings of greater antiquity than
any vet unearthed in India, and 1t is
expected that the Buddhn's ashes viii
be brought to light. The architect of
Buddhism, the boldest and nobest att
tempt of the human mind outside OF
tho Holy Scriptures to rear "a con-
nected and systematic theory of all
things was laid in those ruins 2,400
years ago! The vedas wero the first
produced an enormous quantity of lit
erature. Nyasa founded the Eedanta
school 400 3. G: Then came the logi-
cal school; so like that of Aristotle
rowed from the Aryans There was
another ancient school. that of Kar
made, which dealt with a theory OF
a,9ms Which, lrsa rr6%appe3red centuries
On kapilar was altruistio: then came
that Of P'atanjali,. whose philosophy
was founded on theism These arc
the six great schools of Oriental meta,
physics, and they most abundantly
demonstrate the capacity of the
Oriental mind for pure, profound, alb
etract thought ciautama. by merely
5000 years the monistic or mcchani.
cal theory of the universe--i e.. that
1t is ruled by the inherent and inheXible
law OF cause and effect--that Il has
never been nor ever can be at rest, nor
anybody, nor anything in it either. FTe
taught the eternity and ultimate cause
lessness OF being; that all the strings
of sense arc mere illusion; that tho