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世界名人谈佛教 (27)
崇高而势优的教理
佛教是一种没有西方人观念上“上帝”思想的体系，他否定人类有什么灵魂，认为相信灵魂永恒是极大的错误；他否定任何祷告祭供的效用，认为必须是依靠自己寻求解脱而非外力；他保持着原本的纯洁，没有一丝一毫的让人誓愿或服从的地方；他也从不寻求世俗权力的支持，然而。他却以惊人的速度在这个古老而混杂的世界上传播着他不朽的思想；无论他被掺杂过多少迷信，他终究是人类思想上最崇高的教理之一。——赫克斯利
Dominant
creed
A system which knows no God in the
Western sence, which denies a soul to man, which counts the belief
in immortality a blunder, which refuses any efficacy to prayer and
sacrifice, which bides men to look to nothing but their own efforts
for salvation, which in its original purity knew nothing of vows
of obedience and never sought the aid of the seculararm, yet spread
over a considerable motley of the old world with marvellous rapidity
and is still, which whatever base admixture of forcing superstitions,
the dominant creed of a large fraction of mankind.
～T.H.Huxley
（摘自《世界名人谈佛教》达摩难陀编
成建华译）
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