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Italy. It is the keynote of Plato's philosophy when he says that all knowledge is reminiscence. It was wholly adopted by the Neo Platonists like Plotious and Proclas. The hundreds of millions of Hindus, Buddhists and Jains have made that doctrine the foundation of their philosophy, religion, government and social institutions. It was a cardinal point in the religion of the Persian unagi. The doctrine of Metenpsychosis was an essential principle of the Druid faith and was impressed upon your forefathers, the Celts, the Gauls and the Britons. Among the Arab philosophers it was a favorite idea. The rites and cereinonies of the Romans, Druids and Hebrews exoressed this truth forcibly. The Jainis adopted it after the Babylonian captivity. John the Baptist was to them a second Elijah. Jesus was thought to be a re-appearance of John the Baotist or one of the old prophets. The Roman Catholic purgatory seeins to be a make shift, coʻitrived to take its place. Philosophers like Kant, Schelling and Schopenhauer have upheld this doctrine. Theologians like Julius Muller, Dorner and Edward Beecher have maintained it. And to-tay it reigns over the Burnan, Sia nesz, Chinese, Japa lesz, Tartar, Tibetan East Indian and Ceylonese including at least 750 millions of mankind and nearly two thirds of the human race. It is not wonderful then that this great and grand philosophical deduction which the Hindus, Buddhists and Jains gave to the world centuries
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