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CHAPTER XV.
CAUSATION AND COMPOUND EVOLUTION
The world is the permutation and combination of atoms-Causes of differences - Science fails to explainThe principles of causation-Criticism of Mills conception of the law of causation - Patient and Agent--The Jain view of causation and compound evolution.
Having discussed in a previous chapter how we look upon the Universe as selfexistent something having its being from all eternity, and having briefly reviewed as well the other principal systems of thought bearing mainly on cosmology, we are led to enquire into how, according to our philosophy, old things change giving place to newer combinations and forms. We have seen that the Universe taken as one undivided whole must be in-create, eternal, self-existent and ever-permanent. But viewed from the standpoint of its interrelated parts, it is transitory, phenomenal and evanascent. And it goes without saying that the assertion of self-existent is simply an indirect denial of creation
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