ΤΟ EDWARD T. STURDY, BY WHOSE GENEROUS ASSISTANCE THE EDITION OF THE COMMENTARY HAS BEEN RENDERED ACCESSIBLE TO SCHOLARS, AND A TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT TO READERS GENERALLY. THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED WITH THE CORDIAL REGARD OF HIS FRIEND, THE TRANSLATOR. 'Yan kinci dhammam abhijaññā SUTTA NIPĀTA, 917. Api khvāham āvuso imasmim yeva vyamamatte kalevare saññimhi samanake lokam paññāрemi . . .' SAMYUTTA NIKAYA, i. 62;= A., ii. 48. 'Kullupamam vo bhikkhave ajanantehi dhammā pi vo pahātabbā, pag-eva adhamma.' MAJJHIMA NIKHAYA, i. 135. 'Der Buddhismus ist die einzige, eigentlich positivistische Religion die uns die Geschichte zeigt.' NIETZSCHE. 'We shall find that every important philosophical reformation, after a time of too highly strained metaphysical dogmatism or unsatisfying scepticism, has been begun by some man who saw the necessity of looking deeper into the mental constitution.' G. CROOM ROBERTSON. |