The Aryan Path November 1947

Having thus gained the confidence of many of the leading men in the town—among whom were the great Erasmus of Rotterdam Amerbach and others—Paracelsus attempted a basic reform in the teaching and practice of medicine both in the town and in the university of Bile. [...] The best proof that interest in the life-work of this great man grew several decades after his death is found in the publishing of the first editions of his works in Bale by Huser towards the end of the siteenth century. [...] In the East when a studious man has reached a certain age he retires in the full sense of the term ; he will betake himself to some retreat to which the noise of the traffic of the world cannot penetrate and he will devote himself to contemplation concentration and meditation his wants reduced to a minimum. [...] The difficulty of the Nagari script and the cosequent popularity of the regional langub.ge script contributed their share to the wide gap between the spoken and the written language. [...] Hutchins endorses at least tentatively the pregnant suggetion of the Delegate from Lebanon to the United Nations that the common bond and the common tradition were most clearly revealed in the great works of the human mind and spirit...