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The Aryan Path January 1950

1950

To one genuinely concerned for the beauty of the earth and the welfare of its inhabitants the consideration that oil spreading over the surface of the water from sunken ships clogs the feathers and causes the death of beautiful sea-fowl would be a sufficient deterrent to waging war. [...] The " deadlier thrall " is the life of the world and it closed in her visionary childhood with " the shades of the prison-house " as in Wordworth's " Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood " when The earth and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light The glory and the freshness of a dream. [...] Burning with the ambition of becoming a leader of public opinion she was one of the liberal outstanding representatives of the nationalism of the beginning French Revolution which had drawn its inspiration from the Anglo-Amercan example and which believed with equal firmness in the liberty of the individual in the national foundtion of modern politics and in the desirability of a universal [...] In the midst of many virtues and charms the visitor from the West missed the force of public opinion a national character and a national"24 THE ARYAN PATH [ January will a centre of unity for all the wealth of diversity. [...] The English constitution appeared to her as the model of liberty and reason but she rejected the idea advanced by many after the experiences of the terror of Robespierre and the despotism of Napoleon that the French were unfit for liberty.
philosophy religion
Pages
62
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120051
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
“Thus Have I Heard”—
1-2 Shravaka view
Peace and Progress
3-6 Lila Ray view
Individual Liberty
6-6 unknown view
A New Project for Human Happiness
7-12 Alexander Skutch view
Fugitive Reflections
12-12 unknown view
Emily Bronte and the Mystical Tradition in English Poetry
13-17 Philip Henderson view
Old and New in China
17-17 unknown view
Economics Ethics and Politics
18-21 L. Delgado view
Rediscovery of What Is Forgotten
21-21 unknown view
Madame De Stael: Liberalist and Nationalist
22-27 Hans Kohn view
New Books and Old The Wisdom-Religion and the West
28-30 unknown view
Zen Buddhism
30-32 B.C. Law view
Controlled Devolution in Politics and Economics
33-35 J. Murry view
Reviews
35-42 unknown view
The Indian Institute of Culture
43-46 S. Sundara view
Ends and Sayings
47-48 unknown view
Backmatter
i-vi unknown view

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