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CAUSATION AND EVOLUTION.
The differen ces are not mere freaks of Nature but are caused and conditioned by Karma,
than to take recourse to the Law of Karma to explain the causes of differentiations and differences as manifest in their combinations and subsequent variations. The granules of protoplasm were registered with impres. sions of the acts and deeds they have done in their past lives whereof they have developed a kind of disposition or tendency towards each other under the influences of which they have come to the existing forms of combination making up the different 'Inner Natures' in the different species of trees and other organic beings. Or what else is there to explain the diversities of Nature ? They can't be explained as her mere freaks or as fortuitous concourse of what is invariably conditional -a fact which is but a visible contradiction and negation of the chancehypothesis ; nor can they come out of nothing, for, we are unable on the one hand to conceive nothing becoming something or on the other something nothing. It being thus impossible to establish in thought a relation between something and nothing, we cannot but deduce thereof the indestructibility of matter (pudgal) and conti
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