from life into nirvana. The “sacrifice” of the Buddhist was thus a surrender of a part of life in order to gain an escape from karma, the burden and penalty of sin and guilt. Not surprisingly, the Buddhist perspective is again popular in the twentieth century, not only because of its radical relativism and its denial of meaning to any supernatural order, but also because of its concept of sacrifice as surrender. Salvation for the twentieth century humanist involves the sacrifice or surrender of certain