THE Law of Karma is keynote, or one of the mainstays, of Buddhism, being one of the themes most frequently emphasised by the Buddha Himself. Buddhists with an unshakable faith in this aspect of the doctrine is sure to abstain, through the dictate of their own conscience, from doing evil. Whatever causes trouble or hurts others they are willing to avoid, This even though they know how, being unseen and unknown at the moment, they can go scot-free as far as the temporal punishment is concerned.