Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

VISION OF A NEW CULTURE BY THE I The scientific discoveries of the present _age as also their practical application in human life and society have set many thoughtful persons of the East and the West seriously thinking EDITOR of the future of the modern civilisation. [...] Indeed the same old drama is being enacted once again before our very eyes and humanity is witnessing with disgust and horror the inter-play of the manifold sinister motives of the arch diplomats of the world on the theatres of the East and the West. [...] The thought-symbols and the socio-religious ideology of the West stand in need of a complete overhauling and the sooner they are remodelled in the light of the spiritual idealism of India the better for the West as well as for humanity at large. [...] The salvation of the West depends upon the acceptance of the highest rationalistic principles of Vedanta as much as the liberation of the East depends upon the learning of sciences from the West. [...] Delisle Burns The most admirable feature in the history of our race is the unquenchable perseverance with which the most prominent intellects in all ages have devoted themselves to the perfecting of the outward relations of life the sujugation of Nature the advancement of all useful arts the improvement el' social institutions though they know that the true bliss of existence lies in those q