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Poetry is not metaphysics!
transfiguration and evolution of Manthe mystery, the wonder and the climax of the cosmic evolution. Man thus is but a
product of circumstances and has no freewill. Wherein lies then the possibilities of persistence and re-birth of the same individual running up and down from eternity through the processes of metempsychoses, of undergoing the consequences of his own activities and desires and of reaping the harvest of what he had previously sown?
There is a grandeur in this view of life indeed. But the charms of poetry cannot always and everywhere hide the metaphysics of ideas and ideals from the penetrating insight of the unprejudiced philosophers!
If we deny the very independent existence of man and take him as derived product of matter and material forces working in him we must say that he must have a derivative responsibility for all what he thinks and does. One may owe his existence to something else--to some Higher Power but the fact itself cannot entitle one to shake off responsibility from his shoulder his existence
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