Dr. Woods' Lecture

Under the auspices of the Anthropological Society, Dr. James H. Woods lectured last night in the Fogg Lecture Room on "Ghost Worship and Buddhism in India."

Dr. Woods explained the peculiar but not unpraiseworthy characteristics of the natives of India--their passive bravery, their love of self-directed duty and their aversion to authority and organization, their respect for nature, their deep religions sensibility. To these people the doctrines of Gotoma and his greater successor, Buddha, seemed not unsound. The two leaders believed in the subtle extension of personality, the doctrine that perfect individuals must sooner or later blend into one great whole. Each man must strive for that after-life into which he can pour his whole being. In this way he will obtain the cosmic consciousness which will enable him to look back upon his various former states of existence.

The spirit of the East, Dr. Woods said, will in future come nearer to our own than it has ever been before.