Modern Review March 1912

But on the other hand those who have said The Great (Bhumri) is the only happiness; the nature of the Great is the only proper object of inquiry "—those who have direced their devotion to realise the beauty of all parts the harmony of all conflicts amidst the fulness of MATURITY ;—their debt toe the world can never repay. [...] The silver tax has also been spoken of as an element among the causes of the crisis by the chairman of the Bombay Milowners Association at the last annual meeting of the Association who is reported to have said that the tax had transferred the yarn trade from Bombay to Japan. [...] If the Chairman's allegation be true it corrborates the anticipation of the Hon'ble Sir Vithaldas Thackersay who during the debate on the silver tax in the Supreme Council made the following observations regarding the possible effect of the tax on the Bombay Mill Industry :- The question of the trade relations of the two countries (India and China) My Lord is a complex one and those only w [...] The cause of the failing is two-fold : first the rapid passing away of religious formulae which have served their turn ; and secondly the rise into prominence by means of the command of money and by means of the inventions which are now at the service of even a very little money of masses of the population who have hitherto been kept behind the scenes in lift. [...] The history of the West has been a history of the broadeing of the bases of society of the concession of social and intellectual and spiritual privleges (along with the political) to one class after another of the human family ; until at last the ideal of Democracy is fully born and the struggle has commenced for its accomplishment in fact.