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"It is not to be wondered at that people suffering under the Indian heat sought fictitious escape by turning their attention to religions of escape like Buddhism and Hinduism." Such is the theory often put forward by those who glorify the West with all its remarkable achievements and sneer at the East as a half-dead area of the world. There is a little truth in it, but only a little.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 105