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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM
The principle of Natural Se. lection cannot explain.
highly complex and circuitous course of development with unerring certainty by means of laws and forces of which we are totally ignoranı.' Here too the original substantial causes in all the three instances are, according to the investigation of Wallace, apparently identical ; but what is it that determines one to be a mollusc, another a frog and the third one to be a mainmal ? The principle of Natural Selection can't explain this amazing phenomena ; nor the law of the Struggle for Existence and the Survival of the Fittest, however ambiguously it might be twisted, can account for it. All that these can do, is to explain as to how the weakest go to the walls ; but not why they should. They cannot throw any light as would explain the causes of differences which are evidentin the different spheres of evolution of organisms. The theory of Special Crea
tion, too, cannot account for the differences, Nor the theory of for that would require the establishment
of a Deity, which is, as we have seen, an impossibility. Why should one be made a king surrounded with all the pleasures the world can afford to supply with for his enjoyment
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