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l76 TALKS ON (< AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER " in a sacred book. Do not believe anything because it is handed down to you by tradition. Do not believe anything because good ,and holy people tell it to you. Do not believe anything because it comes to you as a presumed spiritual inspiration from within. Do not believe what I, The Buddha, tell you unless it agrees with your own common sense, and when it does, act accordingly and abundantly." These are the words of the Lord Buddha, the wisest of men, the Great Lord of Wisdom. Surely we can •apply them in the present day. Here you have them in a very slightly modified form by your own Master. He says: Remember that though a thousand men agree upon a subject, if they know nothing about that subject their opinion is of no value. That is a thing which it is very hard for the modern world to realise. It is a lesson which it has yet to learn. People seem to think nowadays that, if you only pile up enough ignorance, you will some- how get knowledge out of it. But you do not, and presently the modern world will have to learn that fact. What our President has called u the many- millioned ignorance " can only lead it sadly wrong. The ignorant must have those who know how to direct them, and not, specially and witrT intention, those who do not know,—which seems to be the present scheme. Well, one has to learn bit by bit. This superstition is a very big and a very subtle thing;