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Therefore explanatia of these facts by pre-existence is better and more satisfactory is
3. It is said that the theory of rebirth is incunsistent with the priociple of heredity The parents are reflected in the child both in physical and psy ch ical traits It is unnecessary to assume that it comes from another life due to its own traces acquired in the past But this difficulty will hold good for curry thur* l' is simpler to hold that the self seeking for rebirth obtaios embodment in the fruide offering the necessary conditions The physical budy derived from the parcats according to the laws of heredity is appropriated bt the LONECIOUS self If this theory is not acceptable, much less is the other sieh which holds that a sort of supernatural essence is thrust into the bodily context of the appropriate nioment The soul draws around it the forces nccc4ry for its proper embodiment It is therefore natural that the child should be bike the parents 24
If the creation of the whole nature is to be credited to the pbysical birth, then the body, life and soul of the individual are only a continuation of the body, life and soul of his ancestry, and there is no room anywhere for soul's rebirth
Heredity cannot explain the psychic force other than the ancestral conti avity Heredity has shown that there is no soul, no psychic force which lorms its material according to its pre-dispositions
4 Another consideration is from memory Here we may raise a question # (9) from the Fut of loss of memory and (il) desirability of the loss of memury.
w We bave no memory of the past life and there seems to be no reason to expect that we shall remember our present life during subsequent lives Now an euskave that is cut oft into separate lives, in none of which mem ory extends to previous life, may be thought to be of no practical value We might as well be mortal, it has been said, as be immortal without a memory beyond the present life It is sometimes asserted that rebirth without memory of the previous existence would not be immortality at all Without memory of the present lule, the lifu would not be mine at all Rebirth of a person without uncmury of the previous life would be equal to annibilation of that person
But McTaggart porots out that the self 19 not a thiog in itself whoso nature # indepsodent of its qualities Self 19 a substance with attributes,
23. MeTaggart Some Dagmas of Religion, p 124 24 Ral'lakribuan 'S) An Idealist View of Life p 235
