... reverential, recognizing a supreme intelligence and power,indefinitely indeed, but sincerely, not an incarnated deity like the Zeus of the Greeks, but an infinite Spirit,pervading the universe. ... men in the superiority of theirgifts, in their miraculous endowments, in their stupendous feats, in their more than gigantic size, in theirsupernal beauty, in their intensified pleasures. It ... the condition of Buddhism as it exists to-day in Thibet, in Siam, in China, in Japan, in Burmah, in Ceylon, and in various other Eastern countries. It spread by reason of itssympathy with the...