Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

867 The Conflict of the Moral and the Amoral—by the Editor 868 The Diary of a Disciple 877 Swami Brahmananda the Spiritual Son of Sri Ramakrishna—by Swami Satprakashananda -... [...] It depicts the best side of life there notes the worst side as well and shows how the virtues and vices of the West are just the products many of them of the environment in which the people of the West live move and have their being. [...] Every vital aspect of life is surveyed—education art religion; newspapers recreation hotels; the place of women the growth of machinery and enterprise the orgnisation of labour and capital; the functioning of political parties and of their relation to government and the future of democracy in the light of what is happening. [...] If the author's conclusion is that in the ultimate analysis the East has reason to be cautious not to borrow the methods and ideals of the West wholesale and indeed to prize its rich cultural heritage as invaluable that is not a conclusion which any Westerner will quarrel with in the light of the great array of impressive facts which the author marshalls in support of that conclusion.