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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. and invariably to be submissive to the play of given laws and forces working upon his life that move and mould him as they come and go ; while according to the other he himself stands in the midst of the conflicting forces of Nature as a maker and master of his surroundings, as autonomous, as an independent centre of origination.
The problem therefore is : Is man an absolute creature of the cosmic powers that set him up? Is he simply a product
of nature ? We answer, "No," For, if he Evidence were simply a resultant of the cosmic proagainst De
cesses of life and living or if he were wholly and absolutely determined in his will by other phenomenal antecedents, then what sense is there in the moral judgment which we pass upon others ? Does not moral judgment take for granted that in the moment of yielding to one of the competing solicitations which is morally bad, we might have preferred the other if we really willed it? Does it not take for granted that we are not manufactured articles passable in the market of the world as good or bad from the very beginning of our mundane
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