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While the evangelical Sunday paper reproduces Karma as a story that inculcates Christian principles, the late Professor Ludwig Büchner, famous as the author of the leading materialistic work, Force and, Matter (Kraft und Stoff), translated Karma from the English under the impression that he had before him some mysterious ancient Buddhist document, for he calls it "an Indian tale from the English of the P. C.” Apparently he mistook the signature P. C., over which the story first appeared, for an abbreviated title of some forgotten Pâli Codex or Pundit Collection, and at any rate a Pagan Curiosity. It appeared in Ethische Kultur, the organ of the German Ethical Societies, Berlin, June 1 and 8, 1895 (Vol. III., Nos. 22 and 23).
Having appeared under Tolstoy's name in French and in German, the story continued in its further migrations to sail under the famous Russian author's name. An enterprising American periodical entitled The International Magazine published an English translation in Chicago, and it is curious that the office of this journal was in the very same block with that of The Open Court Publishing Company. So the story had completed its rounds through Russia, Germany, and France, and had returned to its home in / the far West.
Since the story had gained currency under Tolstoy's name, the author (having previously had correspondence with him) wrote to Posnia, and Tolstoy
