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ESSENCE OF SOUL
157 m society, politics, economics etc, within the limitations of the above said three-fold dialectics. The grow ing attraction of the modern generation towards Marxism is not due to its metaphysical accuracy but is the result of immediate promises of food and clothing held out to the hungry and the naked man. But the principal illusion that all the metaphysics laid down by this psudo-philosophy which aims at the equal distribution of food and clothes, are also right, is not going to stay for long.
Even the scientists with the aid of the theory of evolution and dialectical materialism, have not been able to reach a final conclusion on the question of soul. In the material world, consciousness has been the mysterious element before and is so even today. But on the subject of the soul the points over which philosophy and science had adhered to entirely opposite views, they have been brought nearer to each other today by the new trends in modern science. And in the words of Sir James Jeans; "The border land territory between physics and philosophy which used to seem so dull, suddenly became so interesting and important through recent developments of theoritical physics'
The fact is that, as science was developing and taking pride over its success with childish flippancy, It had to remain astonished at the mystery of nature which confronted it at the close of the last century, Then, during the closing years of the last century,
