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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) August 1924

1924

They are all of them required for the interpretation of the full character of reality." (Reign of Relativity p. 124.) The principle of relativity means that the distinguishable orders in knowledge " imply as determining their meanino-s conceptions of characters logically diverse like those of mechanism of life of instinct and of conscious intelligence." The validity of each conception is li [...] It must imply the whole and nothing short of the whole whether the whole be actually and fully attainable by the human mind or not." Ideally it lies in the exhibition of the universe as " embodying in a self-completing entirety a plurality of orders in existence as well as in knowledge of that existence.". Lord Haldane argues that what stands in the way of our realising that knowledge is the [...] The thought of a paaicular individual does not of couve make things but " that is very different from saying that thought is alien to the constitution of the universe and does not in the multitudinous phases in which we feel and kiiow enter into the very essence of the real universe." Lord Haldane has shown how universal is the sway of the principle of relativity ; but he does not seem to have [...] "It is the universal that is active in individual form and is therefore always dynamic as pointing beyond itself." The good is no doubt of the individual but the nature of the activity detemined by the idea of it cannot lie understood apart from something of a higher degree of reality 'than " the isolated and fragmentary volition of the individual looked at in his aspect of one organism amo [...] But in so far as it has ushered in the kind of government under which the thoughtful and worthy few are liable to he at the mercy of the thoughtless many the capable and enterprising at the mercy of the never-do-well and lazy the kind ofgovernment which in its helpless depedence on the fickle will of a short-sighted multitude is unable to do its first duty of governing properly it has effec
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Pages
183
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-i unknown view
Lord Haldane as a Philosopher
253-273 Hiralal Haldar view
The Flower of Rajasthan
274-289 Francis Judd view
What is Shiva
290-300 Bepin Newgie view
Characteristics of the Tribes of Burma
301-313 B.A. Gupte view
A Sketch of Burmese Music
314-324 Lily Anderson view
The Philosophy of Beauty
325-344 James Cousing view
Scottish Chaucerian Poets
345-352 Michael Macmillan view
Ramai Pandit
353-362 Benoy Sen view
President Coolidge
363-373 Arthur Macdonald view
Sudas and the Bharatas
374-385 Adinas Das view
Tushari
386-390 Gangananda Sinha view
The Late Sir Asutosh Mookerjee
391-400 Ganesh Prasad view
Reviews
401-i unknown view
Ourselves
407-416 unknown view

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