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EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE PERMANENCE OF THINGS. 267
Notluing can come out of any single thing, all is possible out of the attendant circumstances':-(435-436)
TEXT (437)
THENCEFORWARD THE PARTICULAR ENTITIES THAT COME INTO EXISTENCE ARE BROUGHT ABOUT BY THAT ; ON ACCOUNT OF THE FACT THAT THOSE THAT HELP TOWARDS THEM ARE OF
THAT NATURE.-(437)
COMMENTARY. Thenceforward' ;-i.e. since the moment following the second moment!
*Are broughd about by that? ;-that is, produced by the particular causes brought about by the auxiliaries.
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On account of, etc. etc. ' ;- i.e. because their nature is of that character, -.e. produced by particular causes brought about by particular auxiliaries.
Those that help towards them. ;-this should be construed with the preceding phrase "because their nature is of that form '; and the particle 'cha' has to be weerstood as before the phrase "Those that help towards them. The meaning thus is as follow -Towards the effect that comes into existence at the third moment, the particulars that have appeared during the second moment aro helpful, as its cause; and those that are so helpful have the character of having a nature which is capable of producing the effects producible by the particulars brought about by the auxiliaries; so that the particulars appearing at the third moment are all brought about by these.(437)
Question-"How does this restriction become applicable to these ?" Answer.
TEXT (438).
EVERY MOMENT, ENTITIES GO ON COMING INTO EXISTENCE, WITH DET UNDEFINABLE POTENTIALITIES, AND NO OBJECTION CAN BE TAKEN
TO THEM, -JUST AS TO THE FIRE'S CAPACITY TO BURN.-(438)
COMMENTARY.
The naturs of things cannot be criticised (or objected to): because all diversity of the nature of things comes out of a series of ideas bringing the things into existence ; like the 'burning capacity of fire; as matter of fact, they come into existence every moment, as endowed with diverse potentialities, through the functioning of the series of ideas coming one after the other. Hence, even though, for some reason, they are cognised as being similar in form, through the presence of some similarity,-yet, in
