The New Review July 1939

The States of Romagno Umbria and the Marches became incorporated in the Kingdom of Sadinia and in 1870 the remaining States— Rome Comarca Viterbo Civita Vechia Velletri and Frosinone—were merged in United Italy the territory of the Papacy being confined to the Palaces of the Vatican and Lateran and the Villa of Castel Gandolfo. [...] One of the most important argments in favour of compulsory pasteurzation is that it would actually help the producer by increasing public confdence and the confidence of medical men (who in matters of nutrition are frequently the mentors of the public) in the safety of the milk supply. [...] Even the Rigveda (IV 42 5) speaks of young warriors specializing in combats ; the Mahabhdrata refers to exercises on horseback and on elephants from chariots and on the ground and metions the club the spear the lance the dart the sword and the bow and arrow as the weapons with which the education of princes had to make them familiar. [...] VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN INDIA 13 the science of dialectics and the knowledge of the Supreme Soul and from the people the theory of various trades and professions.'' Though Manu has remained the greatest authority on general Hindu conduct the Arthahistra was the special textbook for Kshatriya education. [...] It is only in the last hundred years with the gradual relaxing of the rigidity of caste and the infiltration of Christian ideas that a rush of all castes to the learned professions formerly reserved to Brahmans and therefore to the literary education which seemed to open the door to these prfessions and posts has taken place.