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' " Not otherwise is it with the great moral and religious teachers of human history. Who can imagine Socrates making his own personality the centre of his teaching ? He has too shrewd a measure of his own limitations ; and, I may add, too keen a sense of humour to be guilty of such a moral lapse. Yet how mighty was the personal influence that came to him unsought. He is, in this respect, a hero of the true Humanitarian type. It is a figure of this kind, but with a deeper insight and more tende...r sympathy, that Humani- tarians wish to find in the Gospels. So, too, the dying Buddha said ^ to his disciple, ere he passed away to his Nirvana : "It may be, Ananda, that in some of you the thought may arise : ' The words of our Teacher are ended ; we have lost our Master. ' But it is not thus. The truths and the ^ Monier Williams' Buddhism. JESUS AND THE NEW LIFE 91 rules of the Order which I have taught and preached, let these be your teacher when I am gone. " The personality had passed away for ever into Nirvana, but the truth remained.
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