For it is passively instead of actively impersonal.
Buddhism bears to Brahmanism something like the relation that Protestantism does to Roman Catholicism.

Both bishops and Brahmans undertake to save all who shall blindly commit themselves to professional guidance, while Buddhists and Protestants alike believe that a man's salvation must be brought about by the action of the man himself.

The result is, that in the matter of individuality the two reformed beliefs are further apart than those against which they severally protested.

For by the change the personal became more personal, and the impersonal more impersonal than before.

The Protestant, from having tamely allowed himself to be led, began to take a lively interest in his own self-improvement; while the Buddhist, from a former apathetic acquiescence in the doctrine of the universally illusive, set to work energetically towards self-extinction.