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immoral

doctrine

was to

withdraw

the

devotee

more and

more from

the public

service,

to

concentrate

his

thoughts

on his own

spiritual

emotions,

and to

breed in

him a

contempt

for the

present

life which

he

regarded

merely as

a

probation

for a

better and

an

eternal.

The saint

and the

recluse,

disdainful

of earth

and rapt

in

ecstatic

contemplation

of heaven,

became in

popular

opinion

the

highest

ideal of

humanity,