...which would explain the unequal distribution here of happiness or woe, so utterly inconsistent with the linked them in the chain of transmigrations ; and...greatly facilitated, or impeded, by conditions, of which self -discipline, or the absence of it, are among the most important, is indubitable ; but that the...

...strength, viciousness or uprightness ; and with each feature modified by confluence with another character, if by nothing else, the character passes on to its...by confluence of parentage, but by its own acts." Professor Huxley adds in his notes : " In the theory of evolution, the tendency of a germ to develop...

...its incarnation in new bodies. The Indian philosophers called character, as thus defined, ' karma.' 6 It is this karma which , passed from life to life...each life, not merely by confluence of parentage, but by_its_Qwn acts. They were, in fact, strong believers in the theory, so much disputed just at present,...

...which would explain the unequal distribution here of happiness or woe, so utterly inconsistent with the linked them in the chain of transmigrations ; and...each life, not merely by confluence of parentage, bnt by its own acts. They were, in fact, strong believers in the theory, so much disputed just at present,...

...strength, viciousness or uprightness : and with each feature modified by confluence with another character, if by nothing else, the character passes on to its...merely by confluence of parentage but by its own acts * • • » • * "In the theory of evolution, the tendency of a germ to develop according to a the...

...as thus denned, • Karma.' It is this Karma which passed from life to life and linked them in t lie chain of transmigrations ; and they held that it is...merely by confluence of parentage but by its own acts * * • * • • the results of deeds done in previous existences, and it creates a system of rewards...

...strength, viciousness or uprightness; and with each feature modified by confluence with another character, if by nothing else, the character passes on to its...merely by confluence of parentage, but by its own acts. " In the theory of evolution, the tendency of a germ to develop according to a certain specific type,...

...antecedent existences of which it is the latest term."2 It was the act, or character, of individuals "which passed from life to life and linked them in...fact, strong believers in the theory, so much disputed at present, of the hereditary transmission of acquired character."1 Inasmuch as Buddha denied the existence...

..."which passed from life to life, and linked them in the chain of transmigrations ; and they (Buddhists) held that it is modified in each life, not merely...fact, strong believers in the theory, so much disputed at present, of the hereditary transmission of acquired character. That the manifestations of the tendencies...

...strength, viciousness or uprightness ; and with each feature modified by confluence with another character, if by nothing else, the character passes on to its...merely by confluence of parentage, but by its own acts. "In the theory of evolution, the tendency of germ to develop according to a certain specific type,...