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The Light of the East March 1946

1946

The programme assigned to him in the days of his creation that he should " fill the earth and subdue it rule over the fishes of the sea and the birds of the air and all living creatures that move upon the earth " ( Genesis i. 28) seems almost superabundantly realized. [...] Which man of our generation is ever likely to forget the sudden but world-wide revulsion the awed terror that so quickly succeeded the cries of triumph which had first greeted the discovery of the atomic bomb ? Years of laborious research and the spending of millions had suddenly placed into the hands of the defenders of the right an irresistible weapon one that would — and did — in a few second [...] And what is it again but that they all aim at quick and startling results obtained by material violence and not at the slow but sure develoment of the one seed of stable ecoomics and social justice namely the willing co-operation of the masses secured by the prospect of the satisfation of their real inborn needs ? The harvest must be gathered at once ; we must in the twinkling of an ey [...] But curiously enough of these three aspects of the ' five ways ' that namely they presuppose self-questioning as to the whence of things that they point out various practical methods of arriving at a solution of the problem and that they demonstrate the validity of these methods only the last aspect has drawn the attention because awakened the interest of the modern mind. [...] A fifth of the world is Catholic and the best of the rest when they face and do not shirk the test are in the forefront of the endless procession of those that quest and find Life and Rest when they come trooping in.
philosophy religion
Pages
14
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120063
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i D. Dandoy view
Ways of God and Ways of Men
34-39 unknown view
The Art of Finding God
39-42 unknown view
The Thing You Can’t Ignore
42-43 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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