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Report on the All Asia Educational Conference December 1930

1931

Then I offer tribute of deep gratitude to the Founders and the presiding Head of the Society which for over half a century now has been uniquely holding up before the world the possibility of reviving the worship of that Spirit of Unity by educing more and more clearly the essential unity running through all religions past and present and by directing attetion to the need for the study of [...] Such also is the case with the followers of the other forms and re-forms of the Vedic religion known as the Zoroastrian the Buddhist the Jaina the Sikh though perhaps the element of ritual is less prominent and that of ethics more in the later of these in accordance with the very principle of reform. [...] In all these "'INTRODUCTORY 19 the feeling is prominent of the ever-present influence of and relation with something other than what is perceptible to the outer senses and of the subordination of the life of the physical body to the life of that mysterious something the soul a life beyond this life. [...] And it is being suggested very rightly by influential persons in that same west that the tone and the nature of the teaching given in schools and colleges should be changed in accordance with the new more truly refined and civiliesd spirit of humanism which is manifesting itself in the thought and the feeling of the nations as a reaction against the horror of the senseless butchery of the Grea [...] But there arc few who will not offer the reverent homage of their heart to those truest and greatest educators of mankind by precept and by example whom we know as the Founders of the great Religions the reproclaimers and illustrators of the One Eternal Truth of the Unity of all and of the concomitant Love and Sympathy and Self-sacrifice for one another.
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Frontmatter
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I Acknowledgment
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II Foreword
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III Conference Diary
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IV Introductory
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V Achievements of the Conference
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VI Inaugural Session
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VII Opening of Educational Exhibition
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VIII Farewell Session
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