Capitolo 26
germ. As it is that germ? A minute protoplasm, a gelatinous
substance, and if you examine him with a powerful microscope you want
really you don't find any difference among the foreman-plasmatic germ of an and it
dog, or of a cat, or of a tree. It is smaller than the head of a pin. And
in that state this youth inherited all these particularities from
his/her grandfather; or, in the other words, before he had a nose, he got a
folded up nose; before he had eyes, he inherited cross-eye, and before
he had some brain, he inherited everything the marvelous power-his/her musical
and the artistic talents. Doesn't it seem absurd to You? Even if we admit
this theory of the heredity, thing we understand then? What the whole one of
this youth existed in the form of a protoplasm before he was
been born. His/her cross-eye, his/her twisted nose his/her artistic talents--everybody
these preesisteronos in the form of a cell of protoplasmic. This conducts
the same thing that is taught by the theory of Reincarnation, or, in
other words, if it is possible for this youth to remain in the
form of a protoplasm and it inherits all these things in front of his/her birth,
because it is not able us we believe that the soul or the thin body of this youth
did men possess them from the a lot of beginning? According to Vedanta this
youth was not the creature of his/her grandfather, but he had his really
independent existence; only passing him the channel of his
parents he had received the certain impressions of characteristic, in the moment in which a
I plant with trees in his/her trial of the growth it will receive from the environments
certain particularities when it assimilates those ownerships.
The doctrine of Reincarnation can satisfactorily explain alone and
rationally the differences between children and the reason for the many ones
examples of the powers not communes and genius exposed in infancy. The
theory of the heredity has above to this time failure to give some good reason
for them. Because it is it that Pascal, when twelve years old, he/she succeeded in