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of Mill-Patient and
Upâdân' are not identical.
CAUSATION AND EVOLUTION. ting or counteracting agencies in relation to the teacher's efforts. It is not light alone which is the agent in vision but light coupled with the active properties of the eye and brain and with those of the visible object. The distinction between agent and patient is merely verbal : patients are always agents.”
Taking stands on these and the like arguments, Hume, Whately and Mill and Examination many other scholars of the same attitude of mind under European culture made them- not selves so bold as to attribute weakness to the exponents of our philosophy in regard to our drawing a sharp line of distinction as between the Determining cause and the Substantial cause. And as the Jain cosmology is based on the law of causation as stated herein before, it is imperative to enter into an examination, by the way, of Mill's doctrine on this point.
Let us begin with the remark at the outset, that the upå dân or substantial cause and patient of the European logicians are not one and the same either in meaning or in their bearing. Nowhere in our works on the subject has it been taught that the
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