A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
-- William Winwood Reade
   
William Winwood Reade   Name:
William Winwood Reade
Type:
Historian
Nationality:
Scottish
Birth:
1838
Death:
1875
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