The Visva-Bharati Quarterly May 1946 - July 1946

Thus starting from knowledge of the individual self and radiaing outwards to the family the nation the historical past the rest of humanity we are really contemplating the humanities and the arts and philosophy ; starting from the physical self and his material enviroment we are led to the pure and applied sciences and to religion. [...] It involves the teacher and the taught ; the subject-matter in use between them the formtion of the new and malleable the constant modification of the old the techique involved in the execution of this purpose the principles of human conduct the art of living and the happiness of Man. [...] In after life he always spoke of the years spent among the ship-builders of the Tyne and the doclabourers and costermongers of the London streets as the happiest period of his life. [...] In the heavens sound the trumpet in the world of man drums of victory are beaten To-day the gates of night's fortress Crumble into dust— on the crest of awakening dawn assurance of new life proclaims Fear not." The great sky resounds with paeans of victory to the Coming of Man. [...] Scores of scene from the daily life and experience of the common man—the toiler in the mill the tiller in the soil the common girl the college student the clerk the cowboy the Santal maiden the hillmen of Mangpu the charwoman the domestic servant the coolie the rickshaw-puller and so on countless scenes."2 1 Dr.