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THE KARMA PHENOMENOLOGY.
"we have gained this much that the only fact which appears to directly prove a transmission of acquired characters, has been refuted and that the only firm foundation on which this hypothesis had been hitherto based, has been destroyed."-(Vol. I. p. 461).
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So we see how the theory of heredity and adaptation, in short, the theory of Natural Selection through the cosmic processes of ciency of which Charles Darwin and a host of others Selection. of his line of thinking attempted to show
the origin of species, fails to explain the real causes and conditions for the specific differentiations in the spheres of organic evolution.
The real causes and conditions determing the origin of the different types of organisms are to be found out in the principle of metempsychoses. And if the remarks of Dr. Weisman are read between the lines, it will be quite apparent that the Dr. stands on the very threshold of a revelation. He is knocking at the gate and it will open to give him an entrance into the mysteries of Transmigration, "the undivorceable spouse of Karma"; for, according to
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