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The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Education in India December 1884

1884

Again; if leaving this point we turn to history we find that the one great truth which the study of history teaches us beyond the shadow of a doubt is that the course of civilization has been marked all along with the gradual decrease of State power and the gradual increase of the power of the people. [...] Educated Indians are let it be said to their credit beginning to see now the necessity and the usefulness of enlarging the sphere of individual liberty and of checking any encroacments of the Government upon their social privileges to which the time-honoured traditions of our society and the hold they still have upon the deepest beliefs and convictions of our countrymen lend a sacredness [...] It also shows how mistaken we are in our notions of human society ; how great is our ignorance of the causes and the laws of progress physical and moral ; and how blind we are to the fact that the hope of India considering the present circumstances lies not in widening but in narrowing the sphere of the Government. [...] Thus ignorant as they are of the laws that regulate human actions and incapable as they are from the very nature of the imperfect and hap-hazard education that they receive of discerning the continuous rhythm of cause and effect beneath the apparent confusion of human volitions and of perceiving the order of Law beneath the chaos of caprice it is no wonder if they think that our customs bei [...] On the other hand the French in concert with Persia had extended their intrigues to Sind and as the chiefs of that province had despatched vakeels to solicit the support of the Court of Persia against the King of Cabul the Government of.
government politics public policy
Pages
72
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120043
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Infant Marriage and Widow Marriage in India
541-546 unknown view
Woman’s Influence at Home
546-551 An Indian Lady view
The most needed Reform in India
551-558 V. M. Samarth view
Colebrooke’s Life of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone
558-576 R. M. Macdonnald view
The Poison Tree. A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal. By Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Translated by Miriam S. Knight. With a Preface by Edwin Arnold C.S.I. London: T. Fisher Unwin
576-581 Arabella Shore view
Our Difficulties and Wants in the Path of the Progress of India. By Syed Mohammad Hossain (of Lucknow) M.R.A.C. London: W. H. Allen & Co.
581-584 J. B. Knight view
Energy in Nature. By Wm. Lant Carpenter B.A. B.Sc. Fellow of the Chemical and Physical Societies and of the Society of Chemical Industry; Lecturer for the Gilchrist Educational Trust. With 80 Illustrations. Cassell and Co. Price 3/6
584-585 unknown view
Social and Philanthropic Institutions of the West
585-587 B. S. M. view
The Medical Students’ Course in the University of Aberdeen
588-595 Philis Brito view
The Nowrojee Furdoonjee Testimonial
596-596 unknown view
Indian Intelligence
597-598 unknown view
The Late Mr. Fawcett and Indians in England
598-598 unknown view
Personal Intelligence
599-600 unknown view
National Indian Association
i-ii unknown view