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demonstrations of what his memory could perform, He is the author of several works on the Vaishnava faith.
There are a number of such persons in India whose feats of memory are .as wonderful as those related about. What is the secret in regard to the uncommon faculty of such persons ? The following is the most rational explanation that can be offered.
The phenonera of memory obey the law of the indestructibility of force, of the conservation of energy, which is one of the most important laws of the universe. Nothing is lost ; nothing is annihilated ; nothing that exists can ever cease to be. In Natural Philosophy this an admitted fact. It is such a fundamental law that the whole of Natural Philosophy is considered but a commentary on it. In gorals, we are not in the habit of applying this principle : we are commonly so accustomed to regard all moral and mental occurrences as the results of chance, and as subject to no laws, that many at least admit the annihilation of that which once was a state of consciousness to be possible. Yet annihilation, absolute destruction, is as inadmissible in the moral as it is in the physical world; and but little reflection or reason is needed to see that as all phenomena are but states of some reality, of something that exists, the states may change into other states; but it is alike impossible for something
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