Buddhism and Immortality.

In this Ingersoll Lecture, Dr. Bigelow describes the tenets of the northern, or Nepaulese, Buddhists, whose sect is closely allied to the two Japanese sects, the Tendai and the Shingon. It teaches essentially the possibility of ultimate freedom from the limitations of the material world. Bigelow aptly illustrates the difference between the consciousness of will and that of sense. The ultimate object of life, he says, is to acquire freedom from the limitations of the material world by substituting volitional for sensory consciousness. The so-called necessity that seems to oppose freedom of will is made up of the limitations of personality and material existence. The difference in beings lies in the varying degrees of their realization of the universal consciousness. Bigelow explains the doctrine of reincarnation in correlation with the facts of biologic science. To all interested in moral problems the book will be useful as giving a clear glimpse