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The Presidency College Magazine January 1938

1938

To the precision of a scientist he added the imagination of a poet and the vision of a philosopher and the way he proceeded to unravel the mysteries of life ; to break down the frontiers between the living and the non-living ; to reveal the same physiological mechanism working in plant and animal alike ; to detect and make vivid to the human eye by means of the marvellous instruments invented an [...] Besides these legends and traditions and the meagre references in the commentaries we get the earliest connected account of his life in the second part of the 37th chapter of the Malivamsa the great Ceylonese chronicle. [...] Right observation of the precepts (sile) leads to the purification or visuddhi of body or Jaya the practice of meditation or samadhi to the purity of the mind and the thinking of pafifla to perfect wisdom. [...] We are pleased at the sight of love cooled and hope frustrated! We sit at ease before the agony of CEdipus or the sacrifice of Iphigenia and the death of Cordelia makes for our happiness! And we shower applause on the poet who exhibits all this —our thanks varying in direct proportion to the vividness of the picture and the consequent intensiy of our pain. [...] Of the remaining two parts the music stands next ; of all the pleasurable accompaniments and embellishments of tragedy it is the most delightful: Last comes the decoration which also has a great effect but which of all the parts is most foreign to the art ; for the power of tragedy is felt without representation and actors ; and the beauty of the decortions depends more on the art of the me
education
Pages
111
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120237
Segment Pages Author Actions
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
105-108 Bimal Sinha view
Chronicle and Comment
109-114 Bimal Sinha view
Buddhaghosa—His Life and Works
115-121 Deba Guha view
Tragedy
122-132 Devadas Sen view
Plants that Feed on Animals
133-137 Madhusudan Chakrabarty view
The Development of Modern Urdu Poetry
138-143 Maqbular Rahaman view
The Background of the Sino-Japanese Conflict
144-149 Nirmal Laha view
Ourselves
150-156 Bimal Sinha view
Guide to Periodicals
157-166 Bimal Sinha view
Last Year’s Books—I
167-171 Bimal Sinha view
Our Contemporaries
172-172 Bimal Sinha view
Jagdish-Prashthi
i-48 Bimal Sinha view
Sahitik Jagdishchandra
49-57 Charuchandra Bhattacharyya view
Bangla Aadhunic Upnyaser Ek Dhara
58-65 Shrikumar Bandhopadhayay view
Samanay
66-72 Jayanti Bhattacharyya view
Arthsankat O Sarnaman
73-82 Bimalchandra Singh view
Backmatter
i-iii Bimal Sinha view

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