“In Buddha we find, perhaps for the first time in the history of humanity, that all-embracing love for man which was to be the mainspring of human behaviour and which was to form one of the pivots of his aspiration for self-realisation. The secret of Buddha’s appeal, the great success of this appeal to Humanity has lain here. Buddha, of course, was in the first instance an Indian sage, and he inherited the accumulated wisdom of his forbears…”