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The Present Work Was Begun In 1907 And Was Practically Complete When The
War Broke Out, But Many Circumstances Such As The Difficulty Of
Returning home, Unavoidable Delays In printing and Correcting proofs,
And Political Duties Have Deferred its Publication Until Now. In the
Interval Many Important Books Dealing with Hinduism And Buddhism Have
Appeared, But Having been Resident In the Far East (With One Brief
Exception) Since 1912 I Have Found It Exceedingly Difficult To Keep In
Touch With Recent Literature. Much Of It Has Reached me Only In the Last
Few Months And I Have Often Been Compelled to Notice New Facts And Views
In Footnotes Only, Though I Should Have Wished to Modify The Text.