Burma (Classic Reprint) - Max Ferrars

Excerpt from Burma
Detached though Burma lay from the contact of other civilisation, the seed-corn of a spiritual in uence was brought to her shore from afar, and took root and spread until it pervaded her whole life. The one extraneous in uence under which she fell proved of a paramount order. But the inspiration of Buddhism was broadly human, not racial. Every people might take its message to heart in their own individual way. The restraints it enjoined and the ideals it held up became the.
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