Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The harnessing of electric power promises to do away with the ordnary drudgery and dirt of cookingwith coal or fire-wood and to make of the kitchen a place of ntagic where for the pushing of a button palatable viands undreamt of even in the Arabian Nights are made ready to please the most fastidious palate. [...] The greatest stress was put upon the value of inhibition as a method in the development of the individual as well as society Lnhibition of desires and activities that Were antagonistic to the proclaimed and accepted aims for the individual and society was inculcated as the means to realizing the end. [...] To those who were not ready for accepting the highest aim of human life to whom the objective world of senses was very intimately real and the claims of which upon their attention were too imperious to he ignored the aim was held up not of the extinction of all desires but of the proper choosing of right desires desiroi not in conflict with dImiana or rightousness.roil of the avoidance [...] 'or should the modern laxity in sexual matters be a handle in the hands of voluptuous by ocrisy for decrying the virtue of chastity and the sanctity of the unsullied home of happily married couples. [...] Charmed by the beauty of the language and the ideas expressed therein they began to delve into the knowledge of the East.