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But to view the question from the psychological stand-point. Man is not self-realisa simply a product of matter and material to his supra- forces engaged in a terrible conflict in
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strongest survive to multiply. Man is essentially mind a thinking being having a soul in him to save; and the soul is neither matter nor, like sparks of electricity, a product of matter and material forces. Psychologically as we have seen elsewhere, it is something super-physical. If the soul were matter or a product of matter and material forces engaged in a deadly conflict, how would we account for the psychical possibilities infinite of tripartite character viz., vision, knowledge and freedom infinite--the very esse of the soul for the unfoldment of which the mighty minds of all ages and climes have been labouring? The principles of naturalism, of aggression and self-assertion have always been in direct opposition to the teachings of the great minds whose lives have been a perpetual surrender for the good of mankind. For, side by side with this fierce movement of struggle
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