something 
extremely 
valuable 
and 
painfully 
inaccessible is meant.  The same difficulties 
constantly recurr.  These letters require profound 
study.  Not because the thoughts are obscure—for it 
is not so, it is exceedingly simple—but because it is 
new.  The average individual is brought up in 
certain beliefs, and any examination of these beliefs 
is positively discouraged.  When fundamentals are 
attacked by a new thinker, people are completely 
thrown off their balance.  At first they refuse to 
believe that they have heard aright.  When it was 
first stated that the earth went around the sun, no 
notice was taken, because it was too absurd for 
discussion.  It was only explanation of, and 
insistence on, the statement, that began to arouse 
enmity.  Now, the kind of obscurity which arises 
from the fact that the hearer has nothing in his mind 
which would make him capable of understanding 
what was being said to him is not avoidable.  The 
classical example of this is the translation of the 
Buddhist canon by the missionaries.  They started 
with the conviction that the Buddhist must believe 
in a soul more or less like the Christian soul, and 
that Nirvana, being apparently some sort of place of 
residence not upon the earth, must be a variety of 
heaven.  The result was of course a total 
misunderstanding of Buddhism.  It was seen that the 
context did not square in any way with these 
conceptions, and the missionaries thereupon had the 
impudence to assume that the Buddhist was being 
illogical and self- contradictory.  
It is really necessary to hear Mr. Stuart rather 
than read him.  When he speaks he is transfigured