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perpetual changes. But these people seem to have no insight into the metaphysics of things and thoughts and to forget that the abuse are nothing is good in and by itself. It is of inoral the use and abuse of things and powers with us that are either good or bad. There is nothing as freaks of nature in our philosophy. What is in the root must come out in the sap. Whatever happens must have a cause and whatever is in the cause must pass into the effect. Right use must result in good effects and bad, bad.
The law of karma as we hold it, is but an allembracing interpretation of the law of causation which must work out things inevitably and invariably. If the fall of the apple, before the eyes of Newton who deduced thereof the universal law of gravitation whereby all what is earthly is drawn towards the earth, were but a freak of. nature, how things of the world would stand? Where would be the use of the fall at Niagara—if the torrents were to run down only occasionally without any invariability ? Just as the use and utility of the natural laws and forces lie in their invariability
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