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107 expect to find marks of its antiquity in the character of Gaina philosophy. Such it inark is the auimistic belief that nearly everything is possessed of a soul; not only have plants their own souls, but particles of earth, cold water, fire, and wind also. Now (thuology teaches us that the animistic theory forms the basis of many beliefs that have been called the philosophy of savages; that it is more and inore relinquished or changed into purer anthropomorphisın as civilisation advances. If, therefore, Gaina ethics are for their greater part based on primitive animism, it must have extensively existed in large classes of Indian Society when Gainism was first originated. This must have happened at a very early time, when higher forms of religious beliefs and cults had not yet, more generally, taken hold of the Indian mind."
P. XXXII. Introduction to Gain Sutras pt. II by Jacobi.
Please also see Dr. O. Pertold's lecture pp. 90 to 107 in Jainetar Drashtie Jain by Amarvijayji Maharaj.
NOTE No. 32. The learned Reviewer, writing under the initials L. R. (perhaps Lajpatrai himself), reviewing the Cambridge History and referring to scholastic speculations as to things and events beyond historic range truly obseryes, ;
