Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

"If our young men wish to win the respect and admiration of the world let them draw their inspiration from the wonderful life of the Swamiji who was not only a seer and the greatest standard-bearer of Vedantism in the East and the West but the very impersonation of all that is great and noble in life."—A. [...] The stream of time is littered with the wreckages of `civilizations and systems which went against the moral grain of the universe. [...] This step contributed principally to the downfall of Spain which in the beginning of the modern era stood at the head of the Western nations. [...] After all we knew that already.' The concept of emergence is drawn from the realm of the physical sciences and nothing but confusion is likely to result from the fallacious extension to the realm of life and mind a principle inspired by the properties of lifeless matter. [...] The real in his system had of course to be confined to the rational and this to the logical which had finally to be reduced to the abstract mechanism of the triadic dialectic.