Christianity in the Light of Historical Science (Classic Reprint)

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And yet, the professors of these two contradictory Buddho logies, the humanitarian and the theistic, lived and taught side by side. When the Chinese traveller, Yuan Chwang, arrived in 632 ad. At the great University at Nalanda, south of the Ganges, he found them installed together. As he traversed the nine vast quadrangles round which its colossal buildings were erected, went from one to another of the hundred lecture-rooms where ten thousand students were daily instructed by professors of all the sects, or entered the temples where different rituals were practised, different scriptures read, and different doctrines preached, no bitter sounds of controversy were heard. Under the great trees which adorned the gardens and the park, beside the lotus-ponds, brilliant with bloom, no less than in the academic precincts, there was no wrangling. A common reverence for the founder, a common homage to the same moral ideal, prevented freedom from degenerating into licence, and converted liberty into the bond of peace.

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