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the desired result within a very short time while an ordinary student of arithmetic gets the same result after a long time and through a prolonged operation involving division etc. Here the result yielded in the two cases is the same but the expert arithmetician gets it soon while the ordinary one gets it after a long time. Similarly, of two pieces of cloth equally wet if one is dried in a bundled form the other in a spread out form, the former will take a long time to get dried, the latter will get dried soon. Here even if the quantity of water is equal and the process of drying up the same in the two cases the process takes a long or short time depending on whether the concerned piece of cloth is in a bundled or a spread out state. Similarly, two equivalent masses of life-quantum—one open to time-reduction, the other not so open-differ from one another only as to the longness or shortness of the time required for their respective enjoyments. And so the above urged contingencies like a loss of the done etc. do not really arise in this case. 52.
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