The Light of the East June 1940

The combintion of all metaphysical ideas thought out by all the great philosophic systems of the world with perhaps the Scholastic system.'as basis supported and enlarged by the old and great Indian and Chinese metaphysical acquisitions ; enlargement and specification of these metaphysical ideas by the scientific results of the antithesis ; this is perhaps the future task of the new great [...] India's Co/dr/bath/I—And what may be the contribution of Indian philosophy to the Phdosothla /5ertvini:s ? The Indian mind is occupied predominantly with the problem of the Divine Being and of the world's reltion to It. [...] Here is shown the most tragic feature of Indian thinking : spite of the deepest and sinqesest specula'tion the only:rig4 explanation was not thought of : THE LIGHT OF THE EAST-"that God is the ens as se not created but creator of the Universe and that the world is ens ab alio et ex 'Ado crealuni. [...] In the course of a sentence deploring the outrages in Spain committed by what was euphemistically styled the gvernment forces occurred the words—" the explicable hatred of the Catholic Church." The author of the article as was clear from the content had written "inexfilicable." The misprint was a curious one. [...] And that in all generations and by members of all classes and of every age—by the rich and poor young and old the simple and the learned the worker and the thinker the public man and the recluse: But those who thus love Him were not of the world.