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The Calcutta Review July 1914

1914

Religion pledges in the innermost depths of the soul the fundamental unity of the Given and of the Beyond and she promises the gathering inflow of the latter into the former." Nor is this true only in the region of effort and action ; the great religious spirits have also expressed the same bold paradox of the relation of the finite spirit to the Infinite in terms of aspiration and desire. [...] " After examining the chief distinctions between their conceptions of life he sums up as follows :— " The East is characterized by the exaggerated cult of the past the denial of the world and the idea of Nirvana ; the West by a no less exaggerated cult of the future and the acceptance of the world as it presents itself to us. [...] Moreover the study of the various motions of the Moon has incidentally yielded most valuable information such as for example the form of the Earth the vicissitudes of the tides the distance of the Sun and consequently the magnitude of the...hole solar system. [...] However in treating of the motion of the Moon around the Earth it is convenient in all mathematical calculations to reduce the motion of the Earth to zero and the mass of the Moon to zero ascribing the whole mass of the two bodies to the. [...] We must know that is to say the greater axis of the orbit the ratio of eccentrcity which is the ratio of half the lesser axis to half the greater axis the longitude of her perigee and that of the ascending node the inclination or the angular projection of her orbit to the plane of the ecliptic and lastly the longtlude of her epoch or the starting point as it were for our alculations.
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Pages
128
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Beyond that is Within
285-298 G. F. Barbour view
William Canton: Poet and Child-Lover
299-309 Edward Thompson view
The Moon’s Motion
310-330 A. C. Ridsdale view
The Story of Caliph Stork
331-346 B. G. Steinhoff view
Geographical Expansion in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
347-360 H. L. D. Garrett view
Richard Wagner on Music and the Sister Arts
361-366 Clement Harris view
Minding One’s Own Business
367-375 R. M. Stephen view
Calcutta Papers
376-392 D. L. Monro view
Reviews of Books
393-408 unknown view
Acknowledgements
409-412 unknown view

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