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Causes.
(C)-The Materialistic theory.
CREATION.
(1) Dead, unconscious matter, and (2) Forces of Nature.
Cause.
Sat-chit-ananda (consciousness).
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Nature of the world-process.
(D-The Vedantic theory.
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Evolution, in the course of which consciousness arises from dead matter, as miraculously as the creation of the world out of nothing.
Nature of the world-process.
Creation is caused by the máyashakti (the faculty of Imagination), and is consequently possessed of a dream-like reality only.
Of the above, the theistic theory, set out in Table (A), is wrong because it contradicts the daily, human experience that out of nothing nothing comes.
The Hindu theory, given in Table (B), is also defective, for it merely begs the question by pushing the duality of the seer and the seen into the spider-like belly of a gorging and disgorging Causa Causans of worlds.
The position of the materialist, as shown in Table (C), is equally untenable. He confines his attention to the purely objective side of things, and loses sight of the subjective aspect with which Haeckel considers modern Monism to be quite compatible, and the logic of which is looked upon as simply irrefragable by Huxley. It is all very well to say that our modern Monism is quite compatible with the subjective side of the problem, but
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