Note 81 — Chapter II
Hugh J. C. Beavan translation
It is by tracing, according to custom, effects to their causes, that the Buddhist philosophy arrives at the principles of joint responsibility, which, according to it, unites reason to language, making them mutually flow one from the other. “Name and form have as a cause, intellect, and intellect has for a cause, name and form.”—See Burnouf, Le Lotus de la bonne loi, p. 550. Mercurius Trismegistus, in the Pimander (Pimander, De sapientiâ et potestate Dei), says almost the same thing: “Speech is the sister of intellect; intellect is the sister of language.” See Rechtenbach, De Sermone Brutorum, 1706, p. 2.