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CAUŠATION AND EVOLUTION. thân to take recourse to the Law of Karma to explain the causes of differentiations and differences as manifest in their combinations ces are not and subsequent variations. The granules of protoplasm were registered with impres dinoned by sions of the acts and deeds they have done in their past lives whereof they have developèd a kind of disposition or tendency towards each other under the influences of which they have come to the existing forms of combination making up the different 'Inner Natures in the different species of crées . and other organic beings. Or what else is there to explain the diversities of Nature ? They can't be explained as her mere freaks or as fortuitous concourse of what is invariably conditional - a fact which is but a visible contradiction and negation of the chance hypothesis ; nor can they come out of nothing, for, we are unable on the one hand to conceive nothing becoming something or on the other something nothing.
It being thus impossible to establish in · thought a relation between something and
nothing, we cannot but deduce thereof the indestructibility of matter (pudgal) and conti
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