The Light of the East August 1941

The new reason why men must cling to their ancestral religions is that these embody the religious experience of deeply religious minds of Christ and the Christian Saints of Mohammed and the mystics and ascetics of Islam of the Vedic rsis and all the yogis and yatis of India. [...] A small number of very rich men have been able to lay on the teeming masses of the labouring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself ". 2. From the watch-tower of the Vatican he saw clearly the urgency of the matter that " some remedy must be found quickly" that " the condition of the working classes is the pressing question of the hour". He saw clearly in a prophetic vision [...] The solution was not class warfare not even constant brooding on old injuries but a plea for collaboration of Capital and Labour and Public and State under the guidance of the principles of Christ: 124" It is the opinion of some and the error is already very common that the social question is merely an economic one wheras in point of fact it is first of all a moral and religious matter [...] " Whoever has received from the Divine Bounty a large share of temporal blessings whether they be external and material; or gifts of the mind has received them for the purpose of using them for the perfecting of his own nature and at the same time that he may employ them as the steward of God's providence for the benefits of others." And he quotes Saint Gregory the Great : " He that bath [...] The majority of men of science believe in the reality of the Universals the exclusive right of the quantitative the supremacy of matter the separaticin of the mind from the body and the subordinated position of the mind.