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sm in point of order. Was it not that the Jains entred more into practicle life? Did 'not the Jains set up the system of honouring their chief men ? It was new to him that Jainism preceded Buddhism.
The Hon, J. D. Rees said that the questions as to the differences between the Jains and the Buddhists rather referred to doctrinal differences. As far as he had seen the Jains, he had not been able to see in their life and conversation any difference between them and the Hindus around them. He would like to ask to what extent Jainism was a living religion, so as to differentiate its professors from the Hindus around them.
Mr. Gandhi said; Ladies and gentlemen, I sincerely thank the speakers for their sympathetic observations and their desire to have certain points cleared. The time at our disposal being limited, I hope you will cxcuse me if I condense my remarks. The Arst point demanding explanation is the relation between the Jain philosophy and the early Greek philosophy. In my view there is no relation between them. The early Greek philosophers were pure physiologers; they rainly studied the material universe, and that in a rudely observational inanner. We cannot call them materialists, for the antithesis between matter and spirit was unknown to them. The cosmic matter passed with them for something in itself living; they thought of it as animated, just as are particulat organs. It is native hylozoism. They were in search of an ultimate ground
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