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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) December 1923

1923

I am not here speaking of the old theory of the divine right of kings but of that more subtle but none the less potent conception which envisages the State as an object the existence organisation and ends of which are not wholly determined by considerations of the welfare of the people over whom its authority extends. [...] Lord Morley in his Life of Gladstone' in the chapter in which he examines Gladstone's theories of Church and State after asking whether the visible church is a purely human creation changing with time and circumstance like all the other creations of the heart and brain and will of man " describes the doctrine of the high Anglican and the Roman Catholic as one according to which the church is " [...] In fact however this essentially mystical conception of the State has found a place in present political thinking—not often explicitly but often implicitly—and to this cause is due not a little of the confused thinking with regard to the nature of loyalty allegiance political obligation and the legitimacy of the means which the State may employ for the realisation of its ends—as well indeed [...] Upon the first of these sides the State is viewed as a legal institution and as operating wholly in and through law; and the attempt is made to determine by analysis the essential characteristics of all political institutions as thus viewed and thus to make possible the construction of a science of public law—that is a system of constitutional jurisprudence which has to deal with the relation [...] With the establishment in England of a strong centralized national monarchy the problem at once arose of so controlling the exercise of political powers that the life liberty and property of the citizen might be fairly protected against arbitrary and oppressive action upon the part of the monarch and the struggle to secure this condition of political life cannot be said to have been fairly c
history
Pages
192
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
The Scientific Method as Applied to the Study pof Politics
339-352 W.W. Willoughby view
Savitri
353-379 unknown view
Early History of the Bengali Stage
380-387 Mohini Mookerjee view
World’s silver Market
388-391 H. Sinha view
British Policy in Turkey
392-402 Satishchandra Chakravarty view
The Historicity of Hindu Mythology
403-421 T.R. Ayyangar view
Lessing’s Fables
422-443 unknown view
Eminent Women of India During the Middle Ages
444-449 Satyendra Guha view
Industrial Co-Operation
450-458 V.R. Dikshitar view
Thomas Bird Mosher (1852-1923)
459-465 unknown view
Self-Supporting Education
466-469 J.W. Petavrl view
Some Bird Pets of Bengal
470-477 Satya Law view
Ancient Indian Ballad Poetry
478-496 M. Winteenitz view
Some Views from Nasik
497-506 S.K. view
Reviews
507-515 unknown view
Oursclves
516-529 Willoughby view

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