Buddhism teaches us that the world is a sham and an evil; and the duty of man is to appreciate this fact, and to deny the world, but here the matter ends--it ends with world-renunciation and self-renunciation.

There is only a negative element in such a religion, no inspiration to live and fight for gaining a higher world.

This, of course, cannot provide a satisfactory solution to the problem, for no new life with new values is presented to us.

It is a religion devoid of hope, for it does not point to a higher life.

"A wisdom of world-denial, a calm composure of the nature, an entire serenity in the midst of the changing scenes of life, constitute the summit of life." Christianity teaches us that the world is full of misery and suffering, but the world in itself is really a perfect work of Divine wisdom and goodness.