ABSTRACT
Mr. Adler is concerned with the depersonalization which follows upon a market economy, and he illustrates it by the obvious example of the depersonalization of human relations in an industrial society. If the intention of the workers and, of course, of the managers, is directed upon the common purpose of winning the war, then as a result of this, as a by-product of this, the improvement or the humanization of the workers takes place. In Buddhism one thing is supremely important; knowledge of sorrow and the cessation of sorrow, and the Buddhist believes not only that this thing is supremely important but that we can learn how to get it. Christianity, if one compares it with Gnosis and Buddhism, has its own conception of a supremely worth-while thing corresponding to the ‘self-realization’ of Gnosis and the ‘cessation of sorrow’ of Buddhism.
