A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Bio: Victor Aubrey Lownes III was an executive for HMH Publishing Company Inc. from 1955 through the early 1980s. Soon after meeting Hugh Hefner in 1954, Hefner started Playboy Magazine.
