ters are not given ready-made, they are evolved; they are, indeed, effects, the products of the moral law itself, that is—the products of deeds. Character is the combined result of an incalculable number of deeds, is, in reality, an accumulation of deeds which has been piled up, so to speak, by the individual during vast ages of time and through innumerable lives, by a slow process of orderly evolution. A man’s birth into this life, with his complex character, to which he considers himself irresponsibly predestined, was determined by his own deeds in former lives.
Man is the doer of his own deeds; as such he is the maker of his own character; and as the doer of his deeds and the maker of his character, he is the moulder and shaper of his destiny. He has the power to modify and alter his deeds, and
