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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. different persons ; for life is eternal and is eternally germinating the supreme consciousness of the Ideal that seats the central reality of each human being in an eternal circle of Persons, and establishes each as a free citizen in the all-founding, all-illuminating realm of spirits. But when we turn that mood into literal philosophy and cause our centre of selfhood to vainsh in an allembracing One or One's to vanish into ours, we lose the tone of religion that is true and wholesome ; for true religion is built only on firm foundation of duty and responsibility, on ethical rights and righteousness; and these, again rest on the footing of freedom and Personality. A religion based on such firm foundation is truly a genuine and inspiring religion-the religion not of submission but of aspiration, not of bondage but of freedom, not of Fate but rather of Faith and Hope and Insight.
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