History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.358.2

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He states the problem to be 'whether fate by itself influences and directs the course of human evolution or freewill by itself or both fate and freewill working conjointly lay down the lines along which human progress must lie'. He states that it must be the one or the other and that it can never be both (p. 180). He himself believes in a fixed and determinist future; 'Immortality' essays on, by B.H. Streeter and others (Macmillan & Co. 1917); pp. 293-317 deal with re-incarnation and Karma by Miss Lily Dougall and pp. 317-341 deal with modern Theosophy which adopts the doctrines of re-incarnation and Karma, 'Religion and philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads' by A. B. Keith, vol. II. pp. 570-584; 'Karma and reincarnation’ by Paul Yevtic (Luzac & Co., London, 1927); L’Ame et le Dogme de la Transmigration dans les Livres Sacres de L’Inde ancienne’ by Eric de Henseler, Paris, 1928; ‘Some dogmas of Religion’ by McTaggart with Introduction by C. D. Broad (London, 1930 pp. 77–111 on ‘Human Immortality’), pp. 112–139 on human pre-existence, pp. 140–185 on Free Will; ‘Vicissitudes of karma doctrine’ by Prof. H. D. Bhattacharya in Malaviya Commemoration Volume (1932) pp. 491–525; ‘Reincarnation for every man’ by Shaw Desmond (Rider & Co., London). This work mentions in chap. VIII European great men that believed in this doctrine; ‘The scales of karma’ by Owen Rutter (London).