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own sufficient proof, why not extend the same right to Dwaitism and say that it is equally proved by its own nature? Yet again, it is a universal law of the mind to have its negative ideas based upon the knowledge of its positive ideas. You know a " flower” and it is because you know it that yon can say that there is no “ flower in the sky." You know that fire is inferred from the existence of smoke; and only from this knowledge it is that you can say that you cannot draw the same inference from the existence of water. Similarly, when you know that there is dualism in the universe, then and then only, you con imagine its negative, the absence of dualism.
Another logical difficulty arises when we further consider this doctrine. Adwaitism holds that every-thing is homogeneous with every-thing else by its common property. But the supposition of a common property without reference to the special properties of things is itself absurd. For example, the horn of the
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