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shall not be an absolute "diffuseness.” I take it "difussion" is used in the sense of "dispresion,” SO that the characteristics are so scattered that can no longer recognise what it was you were proposing to deal with. I hope Mr. Gandhi will forgive me for being so critical. People are excusably critical when they know nothing of a subject and want to learn something. I take it that this phrase "The doctrine of the inexpugnability of the inextricably combined properties and relations'' in our everyday dialect means this: “A rational necessity under which we are of conceiving certain things as related to other things in particular ways." Another point struck me as being worth a word or two as to law in nature and a law as amongst human beings. Mr. Gandhi, I suppose taking the Jain view says, “A law is not a command, but a formula to which things or beings conform precisely, and without exception under definite relations." This agrees with the view that I thought was to be gathered from the somewhat complicated statement I read a minute or two ago, nainely, that things must needs be conceived as having certain relations to one another--that is, some things must. The proper way to state this would be the familiar one, it is not a coinmand but a summary of observations. It comes to this, that law in nature is a statement in a systematic way, of the conditions of the existences of the actual phenomena, the difference between this and the hurnan law being that amongst natural objects it is the obedience which
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