Account of Jainism

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SOME ASPECTS OF JAIN
PHILOSOPHY
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Very few men will be found ready to hear the claims of a religion that is professed by only a million and a half people, to be considered as being one of the gretest faiths preached for the moral welfare of humanity. The standard by which the common run judges of the soundness of a theory, is the number of men who are willing to say 'yes' to it. When a comparitive study of religions is begun, the attention of the scholar at once fixes itself on those only that are numerically strong beyond comparison. While Hinduism or Christianity counts tens of millions, it is only with some difficulty that Jainism can advance a little further than the first unit. It is only of late
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