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The Dawn and Dawn Society’s Magazine November 1911

1911

I am repeating the most trite of all educational truisms in reminding the reader that education is no longer a mere acquisition of certain appendages to one's name without any reference to the sphere of activity in which the student will be ultimately placed that it is essentially the equipment of the student for fighting the battle of life ; that in the familiar phraseology of the great philosop [...] And just as I believe that the evoltion of a common consciousness based on religion was one of the achievements which it was the peculiar privilege of our Prophet as a Statesman to create:so do I believe that the evolution by the Indian peoples of a consciousness based on a common country and a common government and thereby neutralising the sectarian tendencies of the Indian mind is the one ob [...] The former relies wholly and solely on religious orthodoxy and the spirit of intolerance rising to the heights of fanaticism for success in its mission of uniting and welding the World of Islam as against the non-Moslem World : while the latter type of PaIslamis.n which has made its appearance during the last half-century or so seeks to imbue the spirit of Islam with modern ideals of progress a [...] In Mecca the true capital of Islam will a student of theology ethnology and politics annually observe the Chinaman the Indian the Malay the Afghan the Persian the Algerian and the Turk freely mingling and discussing together all g uided by the language of the Arabian Prophet. [...] I call it effective because the influence of what the Hajees say goes to the remotest villages of the Mofussil." '"A MAHOMEDAN UNIVERSITY FOR INDIA 163 at any distance from the university from joining it and thereby make it representative of and the nucleus of strength of only the Mussalmans in its immediate neighbourhood and'not of the entire Moslem community of India ? Is not an annual c
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