CHAPTER VI 



REBIRTH AND HEREDITY 



As will be seen when the reader comes to the chapters on 

 Evolution; Life, Death and Rebirth were necessities to God's 

 scheme. Hence before attempting to read these chapters, we 

 require to ascertain the logical or correct ideas of rebirth. 

 There are many strange opinions on this subject, made beauti- 

 ful by various poetic and imaginative religions, all of which 

 are prone to take us out of the land of comprehension into the 

 land of imagination, and the object of this work is to prove 

 the course of evolution upon a certain hypothesis, not to enable 

 the reader to understand evolution and creation. 



That must be left for wiser minds than mine, and 

 future generations, to perform. For being possessed of a com- 

 prehensive mind, not a constructive or mind of understanding, 

 my duty is to place conceptions, no matter how imperfect in 

 scientific detail, before the reader in logical sequence so that 

 the more studious mind may be able to follow the narrow line 

 of road that leads to clear understanding, and to tear off the 

 clothes of misrepresentation where my hypothesis brings them 

 under notice of such minds ; and for them to review and criti- 

 cise and ascertain the correctness of the arguments adduced and 

 to pick out the grain from the chaff. I am therefore endeavour- 

 ing to place before my readers a certain sequence as a means 

 by which they can weigh as in a set of scales the teachings 

 of evolution, history and religions, and to endeavour to point 

 out the logical demonstrations that follow and a means of 

 checking their correctness or incorrectness by the hypothesis 

 I have introduced. Now, the logical mind being the active 

 mind of mankind, it is ever in a hurry, rushing from fact to 

 fact, modelling and shaping designs and plans, too busy to 

 collect the material of knowledge to fill the cart of study or to 

 find time to stop and build up the edifice of perfect knowledge, 

 leaving to the minds of understanding by the advancement of 



