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ofits properties, Adam would indeed have lived and not
died. So that a mere accident saved the remnants of the
already besmirched reputation of the Hebrew tribal
Fetich.
When Buddha was asked how things came to be,
he took refuge in silence, which his disciples very
conveniently interpreted as meaning that the question
tended not to edification.
I take it that the Buddha (ignorant, doubtless, of
algebra) had sufficiently studied philosophy and pos-
sessed enough worldly wisdom to be well aware that
any system he might promulgate would be instantly
attacked and annihilated by the acumen of his numerous
and versatile opponeni
Such teaching as he gave on the point may be
summed up as follows. “Whence, whither, why, we
know not; but we do know that we are here, that we
dislike being here, that there is a way out of the whole
loathsome affair—let us make haste and take it!”
I am not so retiring in disposition; I persist in my
enquiries, and at last the appalling question is answered,
and the past ceases to intrude its problems upon my
mind.
Here you are! Three shies a penny! Change all
bad arguments!
] ASSERT THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE Qanatistic Zino.
‘When we say that the Cosmos sprang from 0, what
kind of0 do we mean? By 0 in the ordinary sense of
the term we mean “absence of extension in any of
the categories.”