It is manifest that the Pantheists give the Sansara
the name of God. The same name is given by the
mystics to the Nirvana. The latter, however, state
more about the Nirvana than they know, which is not
done by the Buddhists, whose Nirvana is accordingly
a relative nothing. It is only Jews, Christians, and
Mohammedans who give its proper and correct mean-
ing to the word "God."

The expression, often heard now-a-days, "the world
is an end-in-itself," leaves it uncertain whether Pan-
theism or a simple Fatalism is to be taken as the ex-
planation of it. But, whichever it be, the expression
looks upon the world from a physical point of view
only, and leaves out of sight its moral significance,
because you cannot assume a moral significance with-
out presenting the world as means to a higher end.
The notion that the world has a physical but not a
moral meaning is the most mischievous error sprung
from the greatest mental perversity.

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