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have earlier seen that the inanimate matter in motion is due to external causes and the animate matter in motion is due to internal causes. Hence the motion in each case is conditioned by two independent, distinct and mutually opposed causes. To assign only one law of motion is total untruth. Inanimate matter in motion and animate matter in motion are governed by two contradictory laws. This fundamental truth has to be accepted by the doctors of science.
The doctors of science do, though unconsciously, recogpise the existence of this problem. We have earlier noticed the utter failure of science when it deals with life, with consciousness. The scientists are very strongly in favour of the principle of continuity. There are philosophers who believe that the world is a plurality, that it is composed of things essentially distinct. The principle of cootinuity will probably long remain as a working hypothesis in science. It will be noted that this way of securing contiquity, by postulating some rudimentary form of consciousness even for the ultimate particles of matter, involves a sort of dualism, The comradeship between Science and Dualist Philosophy has been firmly well-laid. They have to further march in comradeship to discover new and higher truths of nature, that is constituted of dual substances of spirit and matter in unity. The ultimate justification of any intellectual activity is, it appears, its effect in increasing our awareness or degree of consciousness. Increase of consciousness appears, too, to have been one of the process of evolution, if we are to attribute purpose to that process. Certainly the most significant factor in the development from amoeba to man seems to us to have been the increase in consciousness, The greatest truth ever spoken in our age.
The emergeace of the science of nuclear physics has further much advanced our knowledge about the substratum of all matter. The particles have been classified into photons, protons, neutrons, electrons and pions and many more. We 1. J.W.N. Sullivan ; op. cit ; Page 107 2, J.W.N. Sullivan ; op. cit ; Page 175
| SR No. | 010092 |
| Book Title | Jain Darshan aur Sanskruti Parishad |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Mohanlal Banthia |
| Publisher | Mohanlal Banthiya |
| Publication Year | 1964 |
| Total Pages | 263 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 9 MB |