Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c7.s2.t1.1.4

c7.s2.t1.1.4

And if I attacked a lifeless pillar with my language, it would totter, tremble, quake; how much more a human being!” Possibly, the Buddhists, on whose reports we are here dependent, may in their animosity against this class of dialecticians have drawn them in darker colours than was fair; the picture of such a sophistic is certainly not all a fabrication.