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The Calcutta Review April 1920

1920

But if he is too worried by the struggle for existence the strain of the new mode of life and the thought of the ever-dreaded marriage expenses the state of the daughters may end by being even more pitiable than that of the mothers for they will have to face a life of even greater strain under a disadvantage becoming always more severe. [...] The fact that the proximate motive of the individual persons or races engaged in the struggle is in the main self-regarding and that they are for the most part unaware of the role they are playing as vehicles of the evolving Spirit does not alter the beneficial character of the process because Spirit can work through unconscious or even rebellious agents to accomplish its great purpose. [...] Both forms of action bind the soul to the world of forms but escape from that world to the eternal bliss of the unchanging formless world of pure Spirit may be attained by the practice of morality by spiritual discipline and by direct knowledge of the Real as opposed to the unreal and transitory of which alone the senses give cognizance. [...] It is not contended that the leaders entirely neglect the other aspect of things but in the form which the author has chosen to give to the question it is one of leading motives " and it can hardly be said with truth that the development of spirituality is the " leading motive " of the modern Indian public man. [...] The mode of presentation of the facts cited about European civilization and such phrases as India alone up to now has refused to surrender the worshipped Godhead and to bow the knee to the reigning idols of rationalism and commercialism " cannot but produce the inference either that Christianity is of such a nature as to lead to and justify the coarsest materialism or that it is so devoid of pow
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Pages
108
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Women of India-—Some Characteristics
101-123 Anna Macivor view
Sir John Woodroffe on Indian Culture
124-143 A.K. Jameson view
The Age Factor in Crime
144-152 Jhon Mulvany view
Russia—Mongolia—China
153-174 Jhon Baddeley view
Where Pratapaditya Reigned
175-188 P. Faulkner view
Theories of Poetry
189-195 Gleaner view
Reviews of Books
196-199 unknown view
Periodicals
200-204 unknown view
Acknowledgments
205-207 unknown view
Miscellaneous
208-208 unknown view

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