Essays On the Religion And Philosophy of the Hindus
The book Essays On the Religion And Philosophy of the Hindus was written by author H T Henry Thomas Colebrooke Here you can read free online of Essays On the Religion And Philosophy of the Hindus book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Essays On the Religion And Philosophy of the Hindus a good or bad book?
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But direction and contiguity are wanting to the activity of plastic matter. The three qualities of goodness, foulness, and darkness, which characterize matter, would not vary to become primary and secondary in the derivative prin- ciples of intelligence and the rest, without some external instigator whomsoever. Apart from the energy of a thinking being, those qualities cannot be argued to have a natural tendency to the pro- duction of such effects as are produced. '** 'The Pdsupatas'' notion of... Supreme uod being the world's cause, as governing both (pradhdna) matter and (puntsha) embodied spirit, is incongruous, ' say again the Veddniins, 'for he Avould be charge- able with passiou and injustice, distributing good and evil witli par- tiality. Nor can this imputation be obviated by reference to the in- fluence of works: for instigation and instigator would be recipro- cally dependent. Nor can the objection be avoided by tlie assump- * Tliat by wliich tlie world is aecoiiiplislied (pradhiynte), and h; which it is deposited at its dissolution, is lirst {pradhdna^ matter.
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