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But to return to the Materialistic hypothesis of the modern scientists and biologists of the west, we can well say without Chårvaka the slightest fear of contradiction that it is Emile Girarbut the revised echoe of the Charváka French So
cialist. School of Indian Thought. So much so that even the very spirit of the moral doctrine which the followers of that ancient sage Chårvåka or Brihaspati openly and avowedly reached and preached for the regulation of the activities of man so far his moral nature is concerned, persists in the notable declarations which M. Emile de Girardian laid down not merely as his own creed but as that of the vast majority of his socialistic countryman. Girardian's pointed aphorisms are ;--
(2) That the world exists for itself and of itself solely.
(ii) That the man has no original sin to ransom.
(ii) That he bears about him memory and reason as flame bears in it heat and light.
(iv) That he lives again in the flesh only in the child that he begets.
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