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The Scottish Churches College Magazine. March 1915

1915

This war will be short it will be coparatively speaking but an episode in the life of the centuries and over against its ruin and tragedy we must put the many many years"189 of solid progress in civilisation justice and beneficence and the illustration which even the war is giving of the spirit of sacrifice and devotion to the common good The need of disinterested service of the community [...] We ought rather to be ready to give the fullest credit where credit is due and at the same time to retain the right to condemn in the strongest possible terms the policy of a nation in which culture however great has restricted itself to the intellect and has failed to influence the conduct of those who guide the affairs of state. [...] It is like the old story which tells us that the world is supported on the back of an elephant and then when a question is put as to the support of the elephant adds that it is supported on the surface of the world. [...] The foot of the ladder rests firmly upon the historical but the top of it reaches into the eternal and as you cannot separate the two ends of the ladder from one another so you cannot separate the historcal from the eternal in the life of Christ. [...] One result however of the caste system has been to influence the minds of the people against full and free competition." Years of blind obedience to authorities discipline of a sort unequalled in history and the unlimited sway of the champions of religion over the weak commons of India have all tended to damp the spirit to enchain the freedom of the populace in all their actions—religious soci
education
Pages
75
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120237
Segment Pages Author Actions
Editorial Notes
187-190 unknown view
The Historical and the Eternal Christ
191-203 W. S. Urquhart view
The Life Beautiful
203-207 Sudhendra Bagchi view
War-Religion
207-208 unknown view
Dreams of Childhood
208-209 Ram Bhar view
The Ideal of Womanhood
210-213 Pankajaksha Siddhnta view
The Caste System
213-218 Sachindranath Banerji view
Mainly About Ourselves
218-220 unknown view
The Philosophical Society
220-222 unknown view
The Economic Society
222-223 Hariprasad Pradhan view
Literary Society
223-225 Aboni Banerjee view
The Christian Union
225-225 unknown view
Reviews of Books
226-232 unknown view
Notes and News
232-234 unknown view
Mahatma Gourishankar De
234-246 Balai Dutta view
Backmatter
i-iv unknown view

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