Note 38 — Chapter VI
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The Pali word is Kamma, which, like the Sanskrit, simply means "doing; action; work; labour; business." See Childers' Pali Dictionary, s.v. Kammam. Mr A. E. Taylor, in his admirable work The Elements of Metaphysics, describes the Buddhist karma as "the system of purposes and interests" to which a man's "natural deeds give expression."