The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and Other Matters May 1 1918

The next point to be noted about the psychical theory is that if the notion of the future the capacity to create an ideal is propotional to the development of social life the conditions necessary for the development of the psychic faculty creatress of the ideal ottht at the same time to serve for the development of social life. [...] If in the organism the independence of distinct cells is in inverse proportion to the development of the organism as an entirety we cannot establish on the other hand in the social life that the indpendence of the members of the same society diminishes as the devlopment of the society augments. [...] The national life of the Hindus and Jews was controlled to a large extent by a conception of the future in the case of the Hindus the future life and in the case of the Jews by the expectation of the Messiah despite all the unfavourable conditions of their existence. [...] The study of comparative Jurisprudence is of great importance in India because the sources of Hindu law are not the same as those of modern laws nor was the method of development of Hindu law the same as the present day method. [...] Now because of the well-established principle of religious neutrality of the Government of the country the only people who are to discharge the duties of the sishtas of the present time are the lawyers who get scientific legal training.