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man.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM,
subject to these cosmic forces and laws and Nature is not
he moves and acts with due regard and benign to obedience to Nature to whom he owes his
life and looks for light. For, “thus from the war of Nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, the production of the higher animal follows. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless forms, most beautiful and most wonderful, have been, and are being, evolved.”
But this aspect of evolution which is being worked out by Nature through her warfares, through the principles of competition, through adaptation to the environment and transmission of acquired qualities through heredity, makes the environment, the maker and moulder of the man. Man, according to this cosmic process of evolution is no more an independent being having any free will of his own to think and act after his own way and
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