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LECTURE VL
LATER FORMS OE BUDDHISM.
We have now come, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the
end of our journey, and I am afraid you will feel how
little has been accomplished. I have been able only
to touch the fringe of a great subject, to dwell only
upon a few phases of it which are of more especial
interest from the point of view imposed upon me by
the comparative aim of all these Lectures. What has
been left unsaid is a hundred times more in extent,
and in many directions more interesting perhaps, and
more important, than what has been said. But you,
who have listened with so kind an attention to my
imperfect endeavours, will appreciate, I trust, the dif-
ficulties of my task. I suppose there are about fifty
thousand discourses and lectures delivered every week
in England alone on Christianity. Who shall count
the hours that have been devoted during the past 1800
years, in many a University, to the public discussion
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