Book Title: Study in Karma
Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophist Office Adyar

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________________ 112 and lifting them out of their natural savagery. A STUDY IN KARMA THE FRENCH REVOLUTION The collective selfishness and indifference of the well-to-do towards the poor and miserable, leaving them to fester in overcrowded slums, among degrading and evil-provoking surroundings, bring down upon themselves 'social troubles, labour unrest, threatening combinations. Carried to excess in France during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV, this same selfishness and indifference were the direct causes of the horrors of the French Revolution, of the destruction of the Crown and of the nobility. Taught by Theosophy to see the workings of karmic law in the history of nations as well as in that of individuals, we should be forces making for national welfare and prosperity. The strongest karmic cause is the power

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