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And lieie I must say that if there is anything that HHght cause misgivings in our mind as toM. Notovitch’s trustworthiness, it is the way in which he speaks of is friends. When a cardinal at Rome dissuades him from publishing his book, and also kindly offers to assist him, he hints that this was simply a bribe, and that the cardinal wished to suppress the book. Why should he ? If the story of Issa were historically true, it would remove many difficulties. It would show once for all that Jesus was a real and historical character. The teaching ascribed to him in Tibet is inuch the same as what is found in the Gospels, and if there are some differences, if more particularly the miraculous element is almost entirely absent, a cardinal o he Roman Catholic Church would always have the ra ltion of the Church to rest on, and would probably have been most grateful for the solid historical frame- work supplied by the Tibetan Life.