Modern Review November 1911

As the climax of a great -scientific theory on the subject the :tin however only the successor in timreckoning of the moon for already of a hoary antiquity when solar measurement was born w.is the calculation of the rear by the coincidence of the full moon with some given constellation. [...] In this sense of apex of the cosmos Aja-Ekapada is constanly opposed to Ocean and the Dragon of the Deep who is supposed to be the RaiCloud the womb of all life and to personify the vast and immeasurable abyss of the southern sky. [...] of Xenophon's army—'1 he sea The sea ' reound still down the centuries from the pages of the Anabasis even so to the ancient Ary an the Hymalayan mountains were the final goal of vision the horizon to which their eves evtr longingly turned. [...] The free expanse of open air the breadth and largeness of outlook the freshness of the higher atmosphere the purity of the usullied snows the healthy bracing of the cold the delight in battling with the wind and storm the varied beauty of the rocks and trees and flowers the sacred story of the mountain sunsets and sunrisings —all these.will then be the yearly joy of multitudes where be [...] The circle of the monsoon rains is passed and during the wettest season of the year the rain fall on this side of the mountains is practically nil.