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JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
question: How is it that you get a complete philosophical system out of fragments and bits? Does a Judge in a Court of Law reject the document composed of fragments, discovered by a painstaking detective, from the contents of the accused person's vaste paper basket? Not only this but we find that every writer is imbued with the same thought. Many of these fragments are full and complete in themselves, and all tend in the same direction. I think the results attained are wonderful. As I said elsewhere, I may be pardoned if I place them at a height which has not even thus far been regarded as possible of attainment. This is the level at which prevail lasting harmony, enduring goodwill, unbreakable peace! All religions are reconciled. Here all differences melt away into nothing, and men will wonder at their former short-sightedness that is now, happily, a thing of the past. Individually, also, converging testimony from what used to be regarded as hostile encampments will ever tend, more and more, to strengthen faith in the divinity of the Self, filling the interior with Life and Light and growing confidence. The results attained may be summed up as follows:
1) all whole scriptures have been explained, or at least have been shown to be explainable, leaving no unintelligible residue to clash with the established truth;
2) all inconsistencies and differences have been harmonized, or at least shown to be capable of being harmonized, between different scriptures, and the different books, of the same creed;
3) the opposition of scientific rationalism has been broken up;
