Half of the teachings of Buddhism are spent in inculcating charity.

Not only to men is man enjoined to show kindliness, but to all other animals as well.
The people practise what their scriptures preach.

The effect indirectly on the condition of the brutes is almost as marked as its more direct effect on the character of mankind.

In heart, at least, Buddhism and Christianity are very close.
But here the two paths to a something beyond an earthly life diverge.

Up to this point the two religions are alike, but from this point on they are so utterly unlike that the very similarity of all that went before only suffices to make of the second the weird, life-counterfeiting shadow of the first.