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CHAPTER XVI. RE-BIRTH AND KARMA-SARIRA. Prof. Huxley and Re-birth-Huxley's Character and our Karma-matter-Character-Inner NatureLinga-deha of the Hindu Philosophers-The Five Koahas or the Concentric Circles --Pranas of the Hindus and of the Jain Philosophers-Transmission of Character through Heredity-Vs.-Transmigration of Karma-Sarira through Re-birth.
In another place of his last Romane's Lectures, says Huxley, "Every day experience familiarises us with the facts which Law of
Huxley on are grouped under the name of heredity. Every one of us bears upon him the obvious marks of his parentage, perhaps remote relationship. More particularly the sum of tendencies to act in a certain way which we call character is often to be traced through a long series of progenitors and collaterals. So we may justly say that this 'character'—this moral and intellec. tual essence of a man-does veritably pass over from one fleshly tabernacle to another and does really transmigrate from generation to generation. In the new born in.
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