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your letter or the more theoretical parts of it in a Journal which is planned by Mr. Warren for promoting interest in Jainism on this side. For Europeans at large, the Jain system of Ethics will not seem convincing, because they do not hold the theory of KARMA and our opinions on JIVA are quite different; though with regard to virtue and vice, there is no difference of opinions between you and us, still the moral instinct 01 conviction with most modern people of Europe is almost the opposite to the Indian ideal; for their ideal is not so much to become good by abstention from bad actions though that too is essential, as rather to acquire a higher moral quality and fitness by developing the inborn dispositions of the soul for virtuousness ( and in the highest individual for boliness ) in an active life fulfilling one's duties and doing the greatest possible good. By so acting, the individual man is lifted to a higher moral state, benefitting and becoming a model to the less successful. Hence the incessant activity in European life which your people are apt to mistake for mere worldliness, which may be so in a great many especially in times like the present one of great material progress. But it would be short-sighted criticism to overlook the idealism and the earnestness in striving after moral improvement evinced by many,
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