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can Christianity, believing as it does in a What hope
can Chrissingle term of life on earth, hold out to the tianity hold thousands of unfortunate girls who never get any husband to love, while the favoured few who have once been married still have many a chance to grant favours to other men who may win the woman's heart and marry them again ? Are there any reasons to assign for the poor unfortunate girls' never getting any husbands to love at all? And did not the poet sing
"It is better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
Besides if the fear of Hell or the hope of Heaven be a powerful incentive to good conduct in this life, the prospect of countless births and deaths during the courses of which there are numerous chances for amendments of conduct and which repetition of births and deaths can only end with the attainment of emancipation from the thraldom of servitude must be far more so. With its firm conviction in the inexorability of the law of Karma-causality, Jainism regards every successive life as the moulder of the next untill through the entire and
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