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BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.Footnotes:
[1] Miss Gordon Cumming, “From the Hebrides to the Himalayas,” ii. 226, 227.
[2] Max Müller, Buddhism and Buddhist Pilgrims, pp. 5, 6.
[3] Rig-Veda, i. 164, 46.
[4] Rig-Veda, x. 121, by Max Müller.
[5] The thought in this paragraph, and several of the expressions, are from Max
Müller.
[6] So in Shelley’s lyrical drama of “Prometheus Unbound:”—
“Mercury (addressing Prometheus.) Once more answer me:
Thou knowest not the period of Jove’s power?
Prometheus. I know but this, that it must come.
Mercury. Alas!
Thou canst not count thy years to come of pain.
Prometheus. They last while Jove must reign; nor more nor less
Or I desire or fear.”[7] Max Müller, pp. 13, 14.
[8] Professor Wilson propounded a theory to the effect that there never was any
such man as Buddha, but the theory has found few supporters.
[9] The name “Sakya” is made into “Sakya-muni,”—muni in Sanskrit meaning
“solitary,” (Greek, μόνος,) alluding to his solitary habits; and to Gautama is
often prefixed “Sramana,” or “ascetic.”
[10] Max Müller, pp. 14, 15.