But there is a vast portion of the human race with which, roughly speaking, our progress has had no connection; and the religions of these races, which are now for the first time beginning to be accurately studied, are constantly being appealed to in support of the positive doctrines.

Thus it is urged by Mr.Leslie Stephen that _'the briefest outline of the religious history of mankind shows that creeds which can count more adherents than Christianity, and have flourished through a longer period, have omitted all that makes the Christian doctrine of a future state 'valuable in the eyes of the supporters_;' and Dr.Tyndall points with the same delighted confidence to the gospel of Buddhism, as one of '_pure human ethics, divorced not only from Brahma and the Brahminic Trinity, but even from the existence of God_.'[6] Many other such appeals are made to what are somewhat vaguely called '_the multitudinous creeds of the East_;' but it is to Buddhism, in its various forms, that they would all seem to apply.

Let us now consider the real result of them.

Our positivists have appealed to Buddhism, and to Buddhism they shall certainly go.

It is one of the vastest and most significant of all human facts.