Epitome of Jainism

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CHAPTER XVI.
God. Jainism makes no room for an extramundane God.-Laplace and NepoleanThe Idea is not singular in India-Yet the Jains are not dependant on any All-mighty Ruler standing in the without---Dr. Bose and the Super-physical Power-Spencer and Spinoza—“Tertium Quid"-nature of the Power-The Coalescence these powers in different beings on the attainment of "Nirvân" is the idea of the God-head of the Jains.
257 - 265. CHAPTER XVII.
Soul Souls and the God-head --Materialistic conception of Soul-A bye-product of matter --Eastern and Western materialism compared-- Chârvak and Haekel and Girardian, the Socialist-Cosmological and Moral difficulties involved in Materialism – Admissions by Huxley, Spencer and Darwin -The Jain conception of Spirit and Matter -Their Correlativity ---Prasleshas-Parts or Soul-Units-Conscious effulgence form the spiritual essence of the Soul --Soul's constitu. tional ireedom--Its Transmige con through the grades of Sansar and Emu ipation.
266-280.