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JAINA GAZETTE. [Aug. & Sept. love-compellingunity which isimplicit in each and all, and which, in my conception, it is our religious business to make explicit.
I am afraid that until you can see ihe correlation of universal and particulars and the logical impossibility of divorcing them, our correspondence will be of little avail on either side. Still, if we agree to differ, our goal is the same, and I shall always remain. 88, TINDAL STRKET,
Yours cordially, BalsaLL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM.
June 25th, 1914.) M. W. VON DER HEYDE.
Dear MR. VON DER Heyve,
I beg to thank you for yonr very enjoyable letter and wish to say that I think we are not wasting time, because even if a given purpose is not accomplished by the discussion, still the implicit content of one's own philosophy is brought out and seen more clearly than previously, which result is a gaio of idea.
An increase of knowledge is one purpose in tiis discussion, as far as I am concerned, I wish to discover new truth. And although I am trying to get the logic of Jainism accepted, it is not because it is the logic of Jainism in particular, but rather because, as far as I can see, it is a description of tbings as they are. In other words, it is not Jainism that I wish to shake hands over and come to an agreement about, but the truth of the matter of the subject now being discussed, which is, I think, whether or not ihe individuals in the world, you, I, the cat, etc., constitute ONE SELF of the kind that I know myself to be, a living unit, one whole being ; or if not "know,” thep "consider” myself to be. So even if we fail to agree in regard to this one subject, if it is the purpose of each to bring the other controversionalist to see the truth that each has seen, and the correspondence on this one subject is wound up without this being accomplished, still there will have been an incidental gain by each froin his reflection on the sabject. Sach at any rate are my sentiments. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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