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accumulated as personal possessions. Thus the old ideal will be planted in the midst of a new civilisation, and will. spread abroad through another people.
ENGLAND'S KARMA
A colonising nation, like England, will often be guilty of much cruelty in the seizing of lands belonging to the savage tribes that the colonists drive out. Thousands perish prematurely during the conquest and subsequent settlement. These have a karmic claim against England collectively, as well as the debts due from the actual assailants. They are drawn to England and take birth in her slums, providing a population of congenital criminals, of non-moral and feeble-minded people.
The debt due to them by the summary closing of their previous existences should be paid by education and training, thus quickening their evolution
