When one considers that Schopenhauer is read especially by the academically edu cated young people, not in his large philo sophical works but in the minor, easy, witty Parerga und Paralipomena; that Edward von Hartmann's Philosophy of the Uncon scious is published in stereotyped editions; that the Friedrichshagen colony works through novels and poems, one can easily see that the spread Of Buddhist teachings among many finds a well-prepared soil.