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The Calcutta Review (Ninth Number of New Series) January 1915

1915

The commencement of the century saw the abolition of seral: 41 and the establishment of an peasantry the freedom of labour and commerce in the towns : the rigid state control of economic life disappeared and private enterprise in finance and commerce was now possible "THE: t; ‘LCUTTA RUNIENN whence resulted the rise of a class of speculators who transformed the whole life of the nation. [...] In the early part of the century parties were united by principles the Liberals aiming at the limitation of despotic power and the establishment of constitutional government the Conservatives at the maintenance of the "principle of authority " which meant only the power of the King and the privileges of the aristocracy the Socialists at the realiztion of the Communist ideal. [...] The response was"what the orthodox Catholics were pleimed to call a Dicletian persecution ; the struggle know n to history as the kulturkampf or war for civilization was in essence a war between the German Empire and the Roman curia and after fifteen yearof hostilities resulted in the complete defeat of the State the withdrawal of all antcatholic legislation and the strengthening [...] It is often a story of the30 THE cALcu-r-rA REVHEW sudden violent quarrel between two men who had been the fastest of friends ;until they saw a maid as in the Knight's Tale ; or of wrong and of Nemesis as in the Nun's Priest's Tale ; or of the Fall of Princes as in the Monk's Talc ; or of the undying faith of a patient loving woman as in the beautiful Tale of Griselde. [...] Thus in " As you like It " by matching the quick intelligence of Rosalind and the practical-mindedness of Celia with the fairyland of covention Shakespeare has brought about—not the chaotic unreality of the whole but the reduction of the animate and the inanimate alike to a level of neutral ground where both the actual and the imaginary come within the pale of the probable—thus realizing for
history
Pages
141
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
The German Spirit of the Nineteenth Century
1-15 W.C. Wordsworth view
What Might have been
16-26 Nemo view
On the Value of Conventions in Literature
27-39 U. Raghunathan view
German Theories and English Facts
40-59 Edward Oaten view
The Relations Between Industry and Science
60-68 John Watt view
The Cobbler of Soissons
69-78 Margaret Cunningham view
Robert Schumann
79-92 J.D. Sinclair view
Scotland Through German Spectacles
93-96 W. Douglas view
Residential Facilities for Students
97-122 R.N. Gilchrist view
Reviews of Books
123-136 unknown view
Acknowledgments
137-140 unknown view

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