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We may admire or love these twin products of Indian soil--Hinduism and Buddhism--but a dispassionate unprejudiced evaluation will force the admission that their greatest periods belong to the past, that under the impact of modern strains and pressures they will continue to decline, despite momentary or local spurts. What is true of them is true also of the other famous religions--Islam and Christianity and Judaism.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 263