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Hxaggerations weaken instead Of strengthen arguments. Pythagoras. Virgil. Ovid, Lessing. Taggart, Words- worth. Browning. and two-thirds of the other great names often mention cd as boistering buiwaris in Buppors of reincarnation did not believe in 1t, as a series of returning rebfrths or ego?rotations. They did believe, how ever, in the soui's preexistenea ana de. scent into mortality. well grounded and, by the way, rational belief
 We are spirits now: enshrihed, ira- prisoned in physical forms And each conscious spirit. the inniosf ego, the Altman of theSanskirt scholar doubt less, did pre- exist as g semi- tached portion of the infinite spirit. God And in consonance with the divine will lt incarnated for clearer individuaiiza- ton and manifestation Into the mat ertal with it's muitirealizations. Ishis is utterly different from being thrust
 onto the rebirth wheel of a merciless Karmic fate, returning and return ing heshward; and all this, too, with better opportunities hereafter, with heavenly teachers and stellar realms to explore in those unseen and im- measurable inmensities,
 Special creation" outlined in the Babyionian tablets and partially systematized in the book of Genesis, is now a back chapter in the minds of advanced Christendom. Evolution has been substituted by scientists for the word creation. But evolution im- plies preceding invoIution. This admits of no doubt; neither does not philosophy of heredity, which ration ally accounts for all inequalities and diverse human characteristics. There is not benius" born which prenatal influences, impinsing environments. and impressions from invisible sources will not reasonably account for. without resorting to the spacu- latlon of reincarnation.
 The literature of this reincarnation cult abounds In the repeated, the stere- life," which in qualities, considered from the viewpoint of the whole, are among the choicest blessings The re- vers of inequality is sameness or deadly monctony. A forest Of trees the same kind. shape, and height would induce e distressing mania If all births were equal if there were no ignorance to educate. no vicious to reclaim reformers would be denied the pleasure of aiding the i'll born
 and lifting up the deprayed on to the higher planes of moral consciousness and better life.
 The test of speculation, or of any theory is its praeticability. What, then, is the result of a 2.000 years belief in reincarnetion upon Hindu ism?
 Did the fFindus dioover the potency of steam, did they put the railway l system in practice, did they discover the Morse teIegraphic communication did they discover the telephone. or the spectroscope. or the liquefaetion of oxygen, radiuni, wireless telegraphy, electric iight?. what has the Feln- earnation cult done during centuries for the over throw of child marriage, for removing the curse of caste, ana
 for the physical and rnentai education of India's millionsf
 l As an imported theory from the dreamy imaginative east. reinearna-
 tion may be thus summarized: It is upon one will established
 scientific fact; 1t sets at defiance the law of evolution as ascending step by step through mineral vegetable, man. angels, seraphs. godsi it's se.000,oe0 of believers in India, Tibet, .Corea, Burma, constitute the most expectations peo- pie on earth; 1t annihiIates or stupe-
 fes memory for long periods of time; l tt degFades the aspirations of tho spirit Of rotating 1t back again and again into the meehes of matters; as Q Karmie force it knows nothing of
 mercy or forgiveness. mercilessly pun-
 Ishing souls In this life for wrongs committed in some previous existence
 in brief. It Is a Joining of Hindu , magic and Tibetan superstition ] ecilpsing the mind and deeping every mystery of the universe.
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