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 "But to whatever course of action the Lord at first appointed each (kind of beings), that alone it has spontaneously adopted in each succeeding creation."

"Whatever he assigned to each at the first creation, noxiousness or harmlessness, gentleness or ferocity, virtue or sin, truth or falsehood, that clung (afterward) spontaneously to it," (i, 28-29).

Our writer probably did not know what great disaster would follow if the fusion of varnas should take place, but he knew that some great disaster would follow. Probably the fusion of varnas itself began to be looked upon as a great disaster. He had knowledge of a legend