The outline of history ismade of these decisive
curves and angles determined by the will of man.
The next great example I shall take of the princely
sageis Gautama, the great Lord Buddha. So long as the historian cannot do that,
fiction will be truer than fact. It might be called in modern language a citybuilt
out of barricades.
What did men really feelabout the
policy?
But Reincarnation is not really a mystical idea.
The temptation of the philosophers is simplicity rather than subtlety. But after all
there is something more absolute about abdication.
It seems sufficient to answer that governments do
not fight at all. It cannot otherwise exist, or at least endure, because mere
thoughtdoes not remain sane. It really is a curve that in one senseincludes
everything, and in another sense comes to nothing. I mean of course the idea of
Reincarnation. In a sense it becomes too simple to be sane. Their religion was
areligion of despair, even when their practical fortunes were hopeful.
This great reality isthe Caste System of ancient
India. Their religion was areligion of despair, even when their practical fortunes
were hopeful. In any case no man willdie for practical politics, just as no man will
die for pay. The Punic power fell because there is in this materialisma mad
indifference to real thought.
It cannot otherwise exist, or at least endure,
because mere thoughtdoes not remain sane.
It does escape from the circularargument by which
everything begins and ends in the mind. The time had now come for peace;and still
more for economy.
I could have sat in that field and laughed for an
hour.
Economic history would not even be
history.
It has in it the brutal blunder that was the ruinof
Carthage.
As he need not provide for the future of a martyr
so he neednot provide for the family of a monk. Their religion was areligion of
despair, even when their practical fortunes were hopeful.
It fancies that money will fight when men will no
longer fight.
One fell back on toleration and the other on
revolution.