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CAUSALITY IN MORAL WORLD. beginning. We think and act partly of our own accord and partly our thoughts and activity are determined and regulated by the laws of karma in accordance with the merits and demerits of our previous instance. We know this not only by metaphysical speculations or intutions pure and simple ; but also an investigation in the lines of empirical method into the historical events and life-works of the mighty minds of yore, makes it clear that there is in fact a certain amount of liberty and a certain amount of necessity participating in every human thought and activtiy.
Human life being thus but a reconciliation between liberty and necessity, it be. hoves us to enquire by the way as to how are ; we to calculate and measure the parts played Fiat by each in giving shapes and forms to our life and conduct. The Jain philophers hold that greater the liberty, the lesser the necessity, and vice-versa lesser the necessity, the greater the liberty ; or in other words necessity and liberty are inversely related to each other : and the proportion of the part played by the two in a pheno
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