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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.
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From the physical agony inflicted results physical agony endured, for karma is the restoration of the equili
