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future peace of the soul, and remember that we are just as much liable to be re-born in the very position which we put ourselves in opposition to in the present life, it ceases to possess even the feeble satisfaction which the notion of importance in the eyes of our friends and neighbours used to yield. Its proper use would, then, be confined to the providing of the necessaries of life for the family and for such other purposes as would advance the cause of the soul. Wben the value of money is estimated in the light of the above observations, and full allowance is made for the consequences which must redound on the soul in case of a disregard of the true teaching of religion, it becomes perfectly clear that all our endeavours to keep down certain classes of men are decidedly harmful to our own interests. The same observations apply to politics. The idea of nationality is only on the surface of consciousness; for the transmigrating soul all nations are alike, and the man who in one incarnation is born in Europe, may, in the very next, appear in a Hindu body in Hindustan. The tyrant may take birth in the nation or family of the victim of his tyranny, and the bomb-thrower among those whom he now despises. Nay, the one may be now persecuting his own kinsmen,-even parents--of a past birth, just as the other may be blowing up the re-incarnated bodies of those who were near relations in some previous life. Those who are now ruling the destinies of men, and who pay no heed to the distress their tyrannical acts cause, consciously or unconsciously, among the weaker nations of the world, and all those who, in any way, tyrannize over their fellow-beings, may some day have
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