[Footnote 451:  Maj.  Nik. 120 Sankharuppatti sutta.]

[Footnote 452:  He should make it a continual mental exercise to think of the rebirth which he desires.]

[Footnote 453:  So too in the Sankhya philosophy the samskaras are said to pass from one human existence to another.  They may also remain dormant for several existences and then become active.]

[Footnote 454:  Maj.  Nik. 9 Sammaditthi sutta.]

[Footnote 455:  Sam.  Nik. xxii. 126.]

[Footnote 456:  Mahavag. i. 23. 4 and 5:]

Ye dhamma hetuppabhava tesam hetum Tathagato Aha tesanca yo nirodho evamvadi Mahasamano ti.

The passage is remarkable because it insists that this is the principal and essential doctrine of Gotama.  Compare too the definition of the Dhamma put in the Buddha’s own mouth in Majjhima, 79:  Dhammam te desessami:  imasmim sati, idam hoti:  imass’ uppada idam upajjhati, etc.]

[Footnote 457:  The Sankhya might be described as teaching a law of evolution, but that is not the way it is described in its own manuals.]

[Footnote 458:  Take among hundreds of instances the account of the Buddha’s funeral.]

[Footnote 459:  The Anguttara Nikaya, book iv. chap. 77, forbids speculation on four subjects as likely to bring madness and trouble.  Two of the four are kamma-vipako and loka-cinta.  An attempt to make the chain of causation into a cosmic law would involve just this sort of speculation.]

[Footnote 460:  The Pitakas insist that causation applies to mental as well as physical phenomena.]

[Footnote 461:  Sam.  Nik. xii. 35.]

[Footnote 462:  Vis.  Mag. xvii.  Warren, p. 175.]

[Footnote 463:  See Waddell, J.R.A.S. 1894, pp. 367-384:  Rhys Davids, Amer.  Lectures, pp. 155-160.]

[Footnote 464:  Sam.  Nik.  XII. 61.  See too Theragatha, verses 125 and 1111, and for other illustrative quotations Mrs Rhys Davids, Buddhist Psychology, pp. 34, 35.]

[Footnote 465:  But see Maj.  Nik. 79, for the idea that there is something beyond happiness.]

[Footnote 466:  Dig.  Nik. 22.]

[Footnote 467:  Sutta-Nipata, 787.]

[Footnote 468:  Padhanam.  But in later Buddhism we also find the idea that nirvana is something which comes only when we do not struggle for it.]

[Footnote 469:  Metta, corresponding exactly to the Greek [Greek:  agapei] of the New Testament.]

[Footnote 470:  III. 7.  The translation is abbreviated.]

[Footnote 471:  More literally, “All the occasions which can be used for doing good works.”]

[Footnote 472:  Sutta-Nipata, 1-8, S.B.E. vol.  X. p. 25 and see also Ang.  Nik.  IV. 190 which says that love leads to rebirth in the higher heavens and Sam.  Nik.  XX. 4 to the effect that a little love is better than great gifts.  Also Questions of Milinda, 4. 4. 16.]

[Footnote 473:  Ang.  Nik. 1. 2. 4.]