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Mr. Isaacs

CHAPTER VI
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"I intend, nevertheless, that the expedition come off, and I mean, moreover, to have a very good time, and to kill a tiger if I see one." "I thought he seemed immensely pleased at your conversion, as he calls it.

He said that your newly acquired belief in woman was a step towards a better understanding of life." "Of the world, he said," answered-Isaacs, correcting me.

"There is a great difference between the 'world' and 'life.' The one is a finite, the other an infinite expression.

I believe, from what I have learned of Ram Lal, that the ultimate object of the adepts is happiness, only to be attained by wisdom, and I apprehend that by wisdom they mean a knowledge of the world in the broadest sense of the word.

The world to them is a great repository of facts, physical and social, of which they propose to acquire a specific knowledge by transcendental methods.


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