The Spirit of Buddhism. Being an examination-analytical-explanatory and critical of the life of the founder of Buddhism: His religion and Philosophy its influence upon other religions philosophies and on the ancient and modern social and ethical systems social upheavals and revolutionary movements

The spell of the unchanging East may be inimical to material progress but it furnishes a ready material for the exercise of the imagination the reconstruction of a scene and reproduction of the environment which offer the best bacground for the right appreciation of the drama which portrayed the hollowness of human life and unselfishness as its only panacea. [...] It is called the Unconditional the Abstract the Uncreated the Infinite the Eternal the Formless the Invisible. [...] The hands of the Buctctha are held in front of the breast in the attitude of expounding the law (Dharina-chakra-mudra). [...] The figure standing to the right of the Buddha holding a Chauri " in his right hand and a rosary in his left is the Bodhisattva Maitreya the Messiah of the Buddhists. [...] The wheel in front of the base represents the wheel of the law and the two deer the Deer Park (modern Sarnath).