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the discrepancies, disharmonies and enigmas in the world. The effect of this unconscious bias in the mind of the investigator is fateful for the unwelcome theory, for the moment the hypothesis suggests itself, it is apt to be dismissed with little ceremony and without full investigation. So far as Christians are concerned, we have already sufficiently shown that their own religion preaches identically the same doctrine as is taught by Hindus and Jainas in respect of the eternity, 'evolution,' and final emancipation of the soul, and with regard to Islam, also, we hope ere long to satisfy the world that the Holy Qur'an itself cannot but lead to the same conclusion when properly understood. Meanwhile, let us dispose of the subject of heredity with a single quotation from a modern psychologist of note.
THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
"Even though the individual organism," says Harald Höffding (Outlines of Psychology, pp. 353-354), "which, in spite of its completeness and relative independence, is still a republic of cells, were to be explained as compounded out of elements, and its origin made intelligible through the laws of persistence of energy, this would not explain the individual consciousness, the formation of a special centre of memory, of action, and of suffering. That it is possible for such a centre to come into being is the fundamental problem of all our knowledge. Each individual trait, each individual property, might perhaps be explained by the power of heredity and the influence of experience; but the inner unity, to which all elements refer, and by virtue of which the individuality is a psychical individuality, remains for us an eternal riddle...... Psychical individuality is one of the practical limits of science.
"In recent times the attempt has been made to explain by heredity, not only the properties of the individuals and of the family and race, but also the forms and characteristics which apply to all consciousness. Even before Darwin's hypothesis of the origin of species, Herbert Spencer (in the first edition of the Principles of Psychology, 1855,) propounded the theory, that the fundamental forms and powers
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