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155 the stone Just then a little boy came and he too joined the four stout persons with his little energy. This time the stone got uprooted This denotes that while the four stout persons were applying their energy the opposing force was just a little in excess and then the little boy added his even little energy, the pulling force of the stone balanced the energy and when these two forces balanced, the stone was pulled
out.
Besides the above illustrations, there are many more which can be put forth The objection of the Indian Philosophers is not with regard to change The change of the universe at each and every moment is a fact accepted by all. The existence of that law of change we already find in the different limitations of space, time, quantity, similarity and difference etc. It is not, that the change is from the pomt of view of quantity only. Indian Ayurvedists have proved that honey and ghee, severally are both life-supporting elements. But if they were mixed up in equal quantities the resultant thing will be a poison I believe that this illustration of qualitative change is more potent than that of oxygen and hydrogen. There the life supporting and life-destroying elements, when combined result in something life-supporting; but here in this case, the two life-supporting elements when combined together in specific quantities, result in a lifedestroying element. There is no dirth of such illustrations with Indian thinkers also. The objection of
