being only a sense organ which arranges the impressions and presents them to consciousness. Consciousness individualizes those impressions as " mine," and the intellect distinguishes and discriminates, and forms them into ideas.
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ASCETIC AT NASIK.
Kapila recognized only three kinds of evidence, perception, inference, and testimony, and he admitted nothing which could not thus be known, so that, as neither perception, nor inference, nor testimony presented to him the idea of an external Author of all things, the Supreme Deity Was not admitted by him as knowable. On the other hand, he recognized causation, and argued the production of all formal existences from prakriti, or Nature, on five different grounds. Firstly, specific objects are finite in their nature and must have cause. Secondly, different things have common properties and must be different species of the same primary genus. Thirdly, all things are in a constant state of progression, and show an active energy of evolution which must have been derived from
