Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

*nowyor Thus the underlying principle in European nationalism is the principle of the machine and European nationalism is the very pivot and the lever of the whole modern civilistion of the West. [...] As a steward of the nation studious of the purpose and tenour of its life of the nature of its contributions to the life of humanity gatheing up the threads of its internal achievemenand effort sentinelling its interests and pursuits within the country and without let the state in every country faithfully serve the democracy seeking to 'grow out to its full partnership in the one humanity [...] ON THE CONNING TOWER The unobserved observer in the conning tower of moving events on the waters of life is asked to write something for the P. B. of the first month of the flew year. [...] There is a world of difference between the spirit of getting people to do their duty by the compulsion of law and the the spirit of making them do it through their sense of dharma and the former spirit can never be compatible with the old polity of village life in India the system of having the village governed m within the ancient seminary of all democratic evolutions in the world's history. [...] * * 'Back to land ' is therefore the right note of reform which has been struck by some of the most earnest and thoughtful English reformers of the present day." But how can the soul of a country lie in the Allan if everything the village has to do towards national good comes determined from the legislbtures of the big cities ? The village must have the self-discipline and the training as of o