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Western Perceptions of Jainism: Misconceptions, Achievements and Current Expectations
England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
17. Paraphrased from notes made at a Jaina meeting in the Fremont (California) Hindu Temple, 17 October 1992.
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See for example S. Settar's Inviting Death. Leiden & New York: Brill, 1988 and Pursuing Death. Dharwad : Institute of Art History, Karnatak University, 1990.
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It has not been possible in this paper to refer to Jainism's contribution to scientific thought. But anyone wishing to follow up that important and highly relevant topic would find Professor K.V. Mardia's The Scientific Foundations of Jainism. New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass 1990, full of valuable insights and guidance.
20. Collaborated by a conversation with Dr. Gregory Bateson in September 1972 at Kresge College, U.C.S.C. this oral tradition was first heard by me in October 1946 on being shown the Oxford University Union debating hall. Apparently "the members of the house" voted as much as anything on the brilliance of the oratorical presentation. In the debate on the origin of our species to the disgust of the defeated Huxley people the Wilberforce group used the words of Psalm 8 to clinch their argument, descent from monkeys or from beings "but a little lower than the angels."
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