And as all revolts are apt to go too far, so it has been with Buddhism.

In asserting the rights of nature against the tyranny of spirit, Buddhism has lost God.

There is in Buddhism neither creation nor Creator.

Its tracts say: "The rising of the world is a natural case." "Its rising and perishing are by nature itself." "It is natural that the world should rise and perish."[97] While in Brahmanism absolute spirit is the only reality, and this world is an illusion, the Buddhists know only this world, and the eternal world is so entirely unknown as to be equivalent to nullity.

But yet, as no revolt, however radical, gives up _all_ its antecedents, so Buddhism has the same _aim_ as Brahmanism, namely, to escape from the vicissitudes of time into the absolute rest of eternity.