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A Series of Lectures. Self Government and the Bread Problem

1921

Now passing to the practical side we may say, in the first place, that the economic lessons of the war gave us a demonstration on a egigai)tic scale of all the economic facts on which this constructive plan is based ; that and the advent of the required, national movement has created a new situation, and- fortunately we are tieing led in the most hopeful,X11 INTRODUCTION direction ; in that of a b [...] They have now to work for nothing less than the solution of the poverty problem, which, as people are at last beginning to realise, 9s not an insoluble one; and for the solution of every one of the great problems of their ceuntry. 1 It is quite legitimate to emphasise the fact that the imprövements that are now possible would result in immediate improvements in the status of school teachers ; that [...] We have not to attempt the impossible by trying to put the clock back, it is going forward in the way it is required to go, all that is wanted is to combat the negative mentality that is clogging the wheels, but if educated people will take the trouble to understand* the position, it is now as clear as the noonday sun that they could soon correct. [...] But now, let us consider things from the highest plane of all, the moral plane, where we see the morals of the nation t. o. be of the first importance, the plane on which the ethics of the means used are of greater importance than the speedy attainment of the end. [...] His opinion found an echo in the country, culminating in the i3stablishment of t he study of the subject in the Calcutta University and by the University Commis- sion, in the practical efforts of the Maharajah of Cossimbazar, and the attempt lately, started by Mr.
government politics public policy
Pages
133
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xv J.W. Petavei view
Lecture I The Teo Aspects of Non-co-operation
1-21 unknown view
Lecture II Economic and Political Emancipation
22-39 unknown view
Lecture III Indian Problem and the Problem of the World’ Industrial Classes
40-69 unknown view
Lecture IV co-operation
70-94 unknown view
Appendix I The Indian Polytechnic Association
95-104 unknown view
Appendix II The Problem of Popular Education
105-108 Rabindranath Tagore view