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To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

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Max Muller
Age: 76 †
Born: 1823
Born: December 6
Died: 1900
Died: October 28
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Friedrich Max Müller
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