The Idea That Buddhism Denies

We Were An Ill-matched Pair, My Husband And I, From The Very Outset; He, With Very High Ideas Of A Husband's Authority And A Wife's Submission, Holding Strongly To The 'master-in-my-own-house Theory,' Thinking Much Of The Details Of Home Arrangements, Precise, Methodical, Easily Angered And With Difficulty Appeased.

My First Serious Attempts At Writing Were Made In 1868, And I Took Up Two Very Different Lines Of Composition; I Wrote Some Short Stories Of A Very Flimsy Type, And Also A Work Of A Much More Ambitious Character, 'the Lives Of The Black Letter Saints.'

After A Study Of Some Forty Years And More Of The Great Religions Of The World, I Find None So Perfect, None So Scientific, None So Philosophic, And None So Spiritual As The Great Religion Known By The Name Of Hinduism. The More You Know It, The More You Will Love It; The More You Try To Understand It, The More Deeply You Will Value It

The Highest Hindu Intellectual Training Was Based On The Practice Of Yoga, And Produced, As Its Fruit, Those Marvellous Philosophical Systems, The Six Darshanas And The Brahma Sutras, Which Are Still The Delight Of Scholars And The Inspiration Of Occultists And Mystics.

Everyone Knows The Beautiful Story Of Abraham And The Sacrifice Of Isaac. How This Noble Father Led His Child To The Slaughter; How Isaac Meekly Submitted; How The Farce Went On Till The Lad Was Bound And Laid On The Altar, And How God Then Stopped The Murder, And Blessed The Intending Murderer For His Willingness To Commit The Crime.