Collection of Essays

The late war which involved a vast number of peoples in its carnage and whose economic and moral consequenceMODERN AGE is even now troubling the atmosphere of a great part of the world is merely an indication that in the hurry of the scientific progress of the West which has made the human world physically almost one country the cultivation of ethical ideals needful for this condition has been [...] The development of intellectual and moral sympathy for one's fellow-beings the spirit of service and sacrifice and the dauntless attitude of refusal towards evil of all kinds in the face of danger and death must everywhere form the principal part of education. [...] The epic represents in its ideal the change of the people's aspiration from the path of conquest to that of reconciliation. [...] They have loved Mother Nature's rivers and hills they have fed their eyes upon the blue of her sky and the tender green of her corn shoots they have enjoyed the dance of the invisible rhythm in all the forms and colours with which she surrounds them; they have known that the subtle intricacies of human existence find their perfect unity in the harmony of interdependence never in the vigorous ex [...] The efflorescence of life is the supremetiNrry OF LIFE 19 gift of the place and its associations and patriotism is the response to the call of the country.