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JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
opinion does not shut out rational thought; it only shuts out cheap and ready opinion; for on full investigation the word of the Omniscient Teacher will never be found to clash rith rational thought. Matters affecting the details of the world's history and the like are also generally left out of His discourse by the Teacher Divine, so that the progress of human investigation need not necessarily be arrested in the department of natural sciences.
