pages, is "a certain over-mastering principle or power, that lays hold, primarily indeed, of the intellect, but through the intellect of the entire personality, moulding and disciplining the will and the emotions into absolute unison with itself, a principle from which courage, temperance, justice, and every other virtue inevitably flow." [**]

"A man is not wise by much speaking...He is the wise man who is forgiving, kindly, and without fear."
(Dhammapada, 258.)

[paragraph continues] For Gautama sees in ignorance not merely a calamity, but also a moral fault; he agrees with the Darwinians in recognising in man the ape and the tiger, but adds, with Dr. Creighton, that "when the ape and the tiger go, there still remains the donkey, a far more formidable beast." [*+]

Moha, infatuation, and Avijja, ignorance, are everywhere, and "Ignorance is the greatest of taints, more destructive than avarice and impurity." (Ibid., 242, 243.)

He himself was the "enlightened," "the seer" who by insight had won emancipation, and he teaches that if men will only see things as they are, then they cannot but eschew evil and do good; but the great multitude are

fools and blind. To give them new ideals and to lift the veil off their darkened hearts--this was the work of Gautama, and in attempting it he revealed a sturdy optimism and a magnetic personality which went far to energise his ideal. These qualities place him high amongst ethical teachers.