The Aryan Path November 1948

The most sensational discovery of the modern age namely the atobomb has not only revealed the upredictable potentialities of scientiically harnessed matter and energy but has also administered a stern warning that unless the discoveies of science are directed to the planned social and spiritual service of mankind and to the' preservation of the species and of the cultural and spiri [...] Modern sociology criinology and particularly the prolems of juvenile delinquency and of international rivalry and the eploitation of the smaller powers by the larger ones a're susceptible of solution only on the basis of the plasticity and patternability of personality. [...] The leaders of higher thought the philosophers and tie prophets through the ages have given the counsel of perfection to the effect that if man is to be saved from destruction brought about by the mad rush directed by the instintive urges some regulator must be posited between the instinctive urges on the one hand and the final actiity on the other. [...] Below we print the second part.—ED." II-ISLAM AND THE SOCIAL CONSCIENCE Besides the contribution of Islam to the ideal of tolerance another important characteristic of Islamic culture which is of far-reaching sinificance is its frank and unequiocal recognition of the claims both of matter and the mind the flesh and the spirit this world and the hereafter. [...] From the point of view of the larger interest of mankind it is imperative that we should learn to welcome all the help that may come our way in strengthening this vision of life— whether it come from the religious ideology of Islam or the humanism of a Mahatma Gandhi or an Einstein or a Romain Rolland or from the internationalism of an organization like the P. E. N. India is a part of the great wo