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A beautiful illustration is given in the Jain philosophy. There was a gentleman who was a great merchant, and for smuggling certain articles into his store was punished with a certain time of imprisonment. The next day his son was injured by another person who was also sentenced to the same time of imprisonment and was put into the same cell in the peniłentiary and on account of the pectiliar lays of the city in which they lived both of them were prit in "he sto-ks, wooden instruments in which they cannot move. Sometimes they would be put into chains, and then also one cannot move without the concurrence of the other. For some purpose the one person, whon we call A. wished to go out of the cell, and said to the other. whom we will call P. “I wish to go out." B replied, "Y011 gave me none of the food which was brought to y011." A. Said, "Next time I will do so," and the next day when the food was brought he gave him a portion of it, and cotindued to do so every day. B. of course was obliged to stay in the prison one day longer than A, as he was imprisoner on the day after A. When A. was released he did not send for the food again for B. because there would be no necessity for sending it in the same manner. We say of the body and the soul that they are put together as these men were chained together, and as the soul requires the body to serve its purposed, food is necessary to sustain the borly in accomplishing this purpose; but if it is taken
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