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European Ideal of Life
( An Occidental View-Point )
Prof. Herman Jacobi's letter
Dear Sir,
I must ask your pardon for having not yet answered your kind long letter dated 18th July which I received when absent from Bombay for the recovery of health, after a very great strain of work. I abstained for more than a month from all serious work. In fact, I was not able to bear a continued effort. Therefore, I put off the answer to your letter with the rest of my correspondence. Now I feel much better and I have taken up again the regular round of duties.
Your exposition of the Jain ideas on the interrelation between animal or vegetable food and AHIMSA is very interesting, and admitting the theories of KARMA and JIVA as held by the Jainas, self-consistent enough; and if you will grant me permission, I would avail myself of the next opportunity which offers, to publish
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