The New Review April 1946

The problem is not merely an admiistrative one but involves the function of the State in the field of education and indeed the whole orientation of the individual. [...] The quetion of education touches too deeply the meaning and purpose of life the possibility of establishing a Christian life for Catholics to yield without a struggle to the demands made in the name of the State. [...] Today the great problem of the demo-"FROM THE WORLD OF JOURNALS V] cratic re-education of the German people is to uproot the idea that the citizen is only a creature of the State. [...] The scope of social legislation is thus widening and may be understood to include all measures calculated to relieving the miseries redeeming the disabilities and promoting the welfare of the less favoured classes of the community. [...] The history of social legislation in India seems to show two prominent tendencies : (1) the hesitation of an alien government in reforming the social customs and personal laws of the people and in undertaking welfare measures and (2) the progress of social legistation with each extension of popular representation in the legisla-258 THE NEW REVIEW ture and Indianisation of the executive at the cen