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benefit to the task I have in view, if attention were paid to the great principle of Aneakant Vad, which anticipates the logic of paradoxes with which Hegal astonished the world. I hope the above will convince the indefatigible European scholar to look upon Jainism as a system pregnant with various lines of useful research and not as the chimera of a few fantastical, unpractical minds. The small number of a million and a half who profess the creed is not an index to the unpracticality of Jainism. The counting itself is at fault. The name may be borne by a small number; but Jainism is no name of a prophet. It claims its conquests in every section of the Indian community where it was Jainism that spread humanity and manliness. The Vedic sacrifices were discontinued; the Budhistic atheism was exposed; the Hindu philosophy was brought nearer to truth by the post Budhic revivalists; the defects of Adwaitism were brought home to the minds of the Hindus
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