I.—It destroyed the monotheistic ideas of the Chinese, Buddhism is atheistic in the extreme. It pretense no objects of worship. "Any worship which it may have at present is only a spiritual and mental exercise by which the worshipper is assisted in attaining to Buddhaship. Its value is subjective only, Tl.—It cultivates only maudlin virtues. It inverts the true order, and puts animals ahead of man, It delays progress, as in Mongolia, by hindering the cultivation of the soil for fear of injuring insects.
TIL—It_ discourages /all progress by making Nirvana (the object of all effort)
practically hopeless attainment. Even amlong those who give their lives to religious exercises, it is confessed that not one in ton thousand has any possible hope of ever attaining to Nirvana, Hopelessness can never spur to good deeds, IV.—-It contains no principle of self-preservation. It has no power of reform, conquers other religions by absorbing their orrote and all, and giving the people a hodge: Shamanism existe awing Mongols, Taels, dge worse than they had before. Exampl: among Chinese, and not one error has been obliterated, Its progress in China has been downward as a religion from its first, and it has never manifested any power to purify itself and go back to the pure ideals of Guutama, etc., ete,
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