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INTRODUCTION
which furnishes a practical solution of all of life's true problems that religion is concerned with. It is at once a science, a religion, a philosophy, and a soul-elevating ritual. As such, it is capable of raising the worst sinner to the full status and dignity of Divinity in the course of, comparatively speaking, a short time.
The final test of real Truth, I think, should be the ability of a system to reconcile all others, that contain the truth or the grain of truth. This, I can say, is a feature of Jainism alone, as has been demonstrated in the books that have been named already. Any one can, no doubt, claim this privilege for his faith; but we do not want mere talk of large-heartedness and all that sort of thing. No one who has pinned his faith to mythology, whether it assume the monotheistic or polytheistic form or any other, can ever reconcile himself to others or become the medium of the reconciliation of others. The Jaina doctrine of Relativity of Thought it is which is able to accomplish this feat; nothing else ever will!
Jainism originated in India. This is evident from the Jaina Books. Besides this two other considerations fully support the Jaina view in this respect. The first is the philological, and the second mythological. Much has already been said on the first point by earlier investigators,
