ABSTRACT
Siddhattha Gotama saw that "monkdom" was a growing vogue when Sakya was born. He failed to discern in him, not the man of a vogue, but the man with a new word. He wrote of the changed ideal spreading over India of that day, the "wellbeing, the victory, the dominance" of Veda ideals clouded over by the calm, quiet, peace, "Erlosung" of the world-forsaker. He was content to let the Pitakas be the measure of the man who was not to be fitted into monastic formulae and aspirations. And virtually he made his "Buddha" place himself at the head of that vogue. Poorest of afterconcepts is it in Buddhism, denying, in the teacher of man's divine Becoming, the truth of that highest attribute in himself. And yet he got no farther, for he saw in the "Buddhist man" what the scholastic monk saw: only body and mind.
