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596 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
- “In everything there is wicked profligate and abandoned waste. Of all animals that are born only a very small percentage survives.
VIII
“Eat and be eaten is the rule in the ocean, the air, the forest. Murder is the law of growth.”
This is what Reade says in his “Martyrdom of Man.” How different is the Dhamma of the Buddha.
This is what Dr. Ranjan Roy says:
“Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century the three laws of conservation held sway. Nobody challenged them.
“They were the laws of matter, mass and energy.
“They were the trump cards of those idealists who cherished the thought of their being indestructible.
“Nineteenth century scientists professed them as the governing factors of creation.
“Nineteenth century scientists professed them as constituting the fundamental nature of the Universe.
“They conceived that the Universe was filled with indestructible atoms.
“Just as the nineteenth century was drawing to a close, Sir J. J. Thompson and his followers began to hammer the atoms.
“Surprisingly enough the atoms began to break up into fragments.
“These fragments came to be called electrons, all similar and charged with negative electricity.
“Atoms hailed by Maxwell as imperishable foundation-stones of the Universe or Reality broke down.
“They got broken into tiny particles, protons and electrons charged with positive and negative electricity respectively.
“The concept of a fixed unalterable mass abandoned Science for good. In this century the Universal belief is that matter is being annihilated at every instant.