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An Account of the world to be itself self-existing ? " Again, “ Is God self-sufficient ? If he is, he need not have created the world. If he is not, like an ordinary potter, he would be incapable of the task, since, by hypothesis, only a perfect being could produce it.” “If he is to be said to have created the world with an aim, it is what no one will allow. If it is a mere play of his will, it would be making God childish. If you say that God is an ageney through which he creates every-thing according as is determined by his Karman, then, this makes him dependent upon others (for his activity. ) If he is only a saia (or an agent through whom something produces something ) in the production of what is caused by Karman, why needlessly should his eid be presumed when everything is complete by itself?” Further on, the Acharya speaks almost in the strain of Morley in one of his works on the French Revolution Literature when he says. “ If God is benevolent and if he has created the world out of his
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