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THE QUESTIONS OF KING MILINDA.
II, 3, 7.
It will follow the slope of the ground.' * And if it were to rain again, where would the water go to ?'
It would go the same way as the first water had gone.'
What then? Does the first water issue, as it were, command to the second, saying: “Do you go where I have ?" Or does the second issue command to the first, saying: “Whithersoever you go, thither will I”?'
It is not so, Sir. There is no intercourse between the two. Each goes its way because of the slope of the ground.'
Just so, great king, [58] is it by reason of the natural slope that where sight has arisen there also does thought arise. And neither does the sightperception issue command to the mind-perception, saying: "Where I have arisen, there do thou also spring up;” nor does the mind-perception inform the sight-perception, saying : “Where thou hast arisen, there will I also spring up." There is no conversation, as it were, between them. All that happens, happens through natural slope.' * Now give me an illustration of there being a door.'
What do you think, great king? Suppose a king had a frontier city, and it was strongly defended with towers and bulwarks, and had only one gateway. If a man wanted to leave the city, how would he go out ?'
By the gate, certainly.'
And if another man wanted to leave it, how would he go out ?' •The same way as the first.' • What then? Would the first man tell the second:
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