The Coming Renaissance: A Study in Socio-Economic Ethical and Cultural Problems of the Day

" The least that I must do and the most that I can take " and in the hands of the " mighty " undegoes the Roman variation : "From all the provinces according to their utmost capacity and to Rome according to the needs of its wildest and most luxurious caprice and avarice "—which is also the guiding maxim of the governments seated in the huge capital-towns of the advanced nations of the Wek t [...] The Case of India The whole country deplores the premature passing away of Chitta-Ranjan Das whom it spontaneously honored with the loving title of " Desha-bandhu " " the friend of the country " as it has honored Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi with the title of " Maatma " " the great-souled " and Bal Gangadhar Tilak with that of " Loka-manya " " the honOred of the people." But to me pesonally [...] Indeed the highest power of the worker that of the intellect becomes the first in order in our scale of social power when it is not employed as even in the second order— that of the executive ranks of the State but is lifted to the highest ranks of disinterested service that belonging to the holy order of the Legislature and that too not deriving its authority from any so-called supreme will o [...] The second principle is the application of the Law of Sacrifice within each rank which should signify that the wealthiest producers should not only allow themselves to be taxed for the support of the State or the sustenance of the poor and the weaklings of the race but should also gladly succumb to any checks applied by the State for the protection of the weaker producer. [...] Similarly the highest salaried servants of the State should allow reduction in their salaries above a certain limit say that of an averagcomfort-wage so as to maximise the happiness of the humbler servants of the State; similarly for the highest order that of the legislature the highest virtue of selrenunciation and a lofty sense of duty for the service of the country is desirable.