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 48 THE DIAMOND SUTRA Buddha formulate a precise system of Law or doctrine ? " Subhuti replied, saying: " Honoured of the Worlds ! The Lord Buddha did not formulate a precise system of Law or doctrine." The Lord Buddha addressed Subhuti, saying: "What think you? within the myriad worlds which comprise this universe, are the atoms of dust numerous ?"1 Subhuti replied, saying : “Very numerous, Honoured of the Worlds ! ” 1" Matter is infinitely divisible." The World as Idea and Will. SCHOPENHAUER. "After me repeat Your numeration By Pundarikas unto Padumas, Which last is how you count the utmost grains Of Hastagiri ground to finest dust." -The Light of Asia. Sir Edwin ARNOLD. "If the Buddha was not a materialist, in the sense of believing in the eternal existence of material atoms, neither could he in any sense be called a 'spiritualist,' or believer in the external existence of abstract spirit. With him creation did not proceed from an omnipotent spirit or mind evolving phenomena out of itself by the exercise of will , nor from an eternal self-existing, self-evolving, germ of any kind. As to the existence in the universe of any spiritual substance which was not matter and