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us as the sum of our limitations-our environment, including our physical body.
It is probable that a close study of past activities and present environment would result in a knowledge of details that at present we do not possess. We read in Buddhist and Hindu Scriptures a mass of details on this subject, 'probably drawn from meticulous careful observation. At present, we modern students can only affirm a few broad facts. Extreme cruelty inflicted on the helpless-on heretics, on children, on animals—reacts on inquisi. tors, on brutal parents and teachers, on vivisectors, as physical deformity, more or less revolting and extreme, according to the nature and extent of the cruelty.
PERFECT JUSTICE
From the physical agony inflicted results physical agony endured, for karma is the restoration of the equili