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The Calcutta Review March 1952

1952

The imaginary objective space of classical physics was not demonstrable and was based on the false assumption of an infinite velocity of light and so; on absolute simultaneity of events (specifically the coincidences of marks of a scale with the two ends of a distance) Einstein showed that to conceive an objective space extending over the whole of the universe we have to blend this space with ti [...] Nor is the literary experience exclusive in character to ba kept confined to the -hot-house atmosphere of the academic lecture hall or fostered in the seclusion of the library reading room and too odd to be admitted into the home and social life of the reader. [...] Many of our greatest political blunders or social injustices are the result not so much of maliciousness and cruelty of kings and employers of parent and husbands as of the inability of our citizens to translate into human"196 THE CALCUTTA REVIEW [MAR.' terms the laws passed by the legislators the political slogans supported by the statesmen or the ethical ideals held up by the that is. [...] Having its germ root and nourishment deep in the social' and ideological atmosphere of the times the literature of the age is competent to provide suggestions for and even guidance in respect of many a point of conduct and attitude in the face of situtions and questions that are likely to face the individual in actual life. [...] The Industrial Commission of 1918 recommended an institution on the analogy of the Industrial Bank of Japan (1902) one of the earliest of all serious attempts to alleviate the financial hardships of private industry through the medium of a special state agency.
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Pages
62
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
The New Order
175-179 Jitendrakumar Chakravarty view
The Legend About St. Bartholomew
180-184 P.K. Banerjee view
Epistemological Consequences of New Physics
185-194 Pravasjivan Chaudhury view
The Role of Literature in Social Education
195-201 K. Lahiri view
The Story of the Industrial Finance Corporation of India
202-212 Arun Datta Gupta view
Is Psychology an Exact Science ?
213-219 Rames Das view
Round the World
220-224 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
225-226 unknown view
Ourselves
227-229 Satish Ghose view
Official Notifications University of Calcutta
230-236 unknown view

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