Men and Thought in Ancient India

The next character brought forward is the Buddha who born a prince and a prince among preen lived to achieve the highest enlightenment in the solitude of the forests which produced the wisdom of the Araiyakas and Upanisads and discovered a new world of Truth and Love which welnigh completed the circle of Indian thought and even extended it over a large part of mankind. [...] Asoka stands out as the singular example of -a monarch and a man of affairs proving the btst of idealists who proceeded boldly to Organise an empire upon the principle of Right and not of Might the first and perhaps the only man in the world who proclaimed war as an evil and believed only in moral conquest in force of law and not the law of force Soldiers of his faith invaded the countries [...] His theory as to the means of self-realisation the quest of the Brahman the Ultimate Truth led him to the crowning act of his life the renunciation of the world and adoption of the mendicant's life of homlessness. [...] As all waters have their meeting place in the sea 411 touch in"16 MEN AND THOUGHT the skin all tastes in the tongue all odours in the nose all colours in the eye all sounas in the ear all precepts in the mind all knoledge in the heart all actions in the hands all movements in the feet and the Vedas in speech. [...] Pasenadi of Kosala suing for a girl of pure takyan blood for his wife and of the gakyas proud of their birth meeting that request halway by sending the daughter of a 8akya by a slave-woman : we read also on the othet hand of the Assembly of the Stlyas transacting the judicial and administrative business of the clan 1 The theory is the result of the latest widely accepted reaching of certai