Human, All Too Human, Part 144 summary
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In 144, the speaker qualifies his general portrait of saints by acknowledging exceptions marked by gentleness, humanity, personal strength, or compelling delusions. He compares religious and scientific routes to feeling free from sin and responsibility, then contrasts Buddhist respect for intellectual discipline with Christian condemnation of it.
What happens
- The speaker acknowledges that some saints offer more appealing examples than his general portrait suggests.
- Some stand out through gentleness, humanity, or personal strength, while others attract through their delusions.
- The founder of christianity gains a sense of sinlessness through imagining himself God's only begotten son.
- The speaker says science also offers individuals a sense of sinlessness and freedom from responsibility.
- Saints of India occupy a middle position between Christian saints and Greek philosophers.
- Buddhists treat knowledge and intellectual training as requirements for holiness, whereas the Christian world treats them as signs of sin.
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