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The New Review December 1935

1935

They harp on the alleged 'pathetic contentment' of the cultivator the 'zulum' of the police the 'venality' of the lower and middle ranks of the civil administration and the 'aloofness' of the upper ranks ; the 'exclusiveness' of caste and its 'inhuman' attitude toward the 'depressed' classes ; xhe obscurantism of orthodoxy and of the purdah. [...] In his Dialogue on Tyndale the translator of the New Testament he is forced to deal with such topics as the Constitution the relation between Church and State and religious toleration though the subjects of the controversy were such religious things as the worship of images the Bible as the source of Christian doctrine the government of the Church and so forth. [...] The same historian thought that 'under the sinister influence of the official theology of Henry court the apostle of toleration became a persecutor of Lutherans.' Murray the historian of the political thought of the Reformation feels 'it is obvious that the More of the Confutation and of the coarse and scurrilous Vindicatio Henrici VIII a Calumniis Lutheri is no longer the More of the Utopia' [...] 'Tis now about fifty years since Allan Donn sailed from Stornoway to tie the knot 'twixt himself and theLEGEND OF THE WESTERN OCEAN 535 jewel of the Isles the daughter of the Laird of Scalpay in the Hebrides ; but between raising and lowering sail the Sea-mischief got a grip of him so that at the time when ft was right for him to marry he was lying beneath the foam of the waves ; and to this v [...] When the hour of her release came the wish of her friends was to ferry her over across the narrows to the resting-place of her forefathers ; but though many is the attempt they made to reach that journey-end yet fate and storm and the Sea were against them so that the tale's end is that the sewar fulfilled the wish of the maid who sang '...
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Pages
96
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120030
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preparing Leaders of India
505-521 G.R. Hunter view
The Political Philosophy of St. Thomas More
522-530 M. Ruthnaswamy view
Legend of the Western Ocean
531-539 Ruaraidh Erskine view
The Bengal Resolution of 1935
540-552 T.N. Siqueira view
Marxian Rationalism
553-561 C.C. Clump view
Archbishop John of Montecorvino Patriarch of the Entire Orient
562-568 Marion Habig view
Some Santal Customs
569-575 J. Cumbo view
Some Recent Books
576-600 St. Paul’s Religion view

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