Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c13.121

c13.121

But philosophical speculation followed another direction too. In Greece as well as in India philosophy began in the same way—with cosmology. The two kindred enquiries were—out of what source has the cosmos sprung? And, who fashioned it? There is implicit in the one an evolutionist, in the other a creationist attitude. The primary object of search in the first case is Primordial Matter;¹⁰⁴ in the second, it is the Primordial Person.