> I guess science has always been this contemptuous of both its ancestors and the religious. > > The Buddhist finds his answer in a toleration for what he may

> I guess science has always been this contemptuous of both its ancestors and the religious. > > The Buddhist finds his answer in a toleration for what he may neither understand nor alter. Let's be charitable; this is not contempt, it is merely shallow knowledge. In 1936, educated westerners had heard the praises of Buddhism but had little access to sophisticated teaching. Buddhism really does teach us to accept the world as it is, and that the world as it is goes beyond the reach of propositional knowledge. So it is understandable that someone with a hazy (but not wrong) impression of that call it "toleration for what he may neither understand nor alter".