The Calcutta Law Journal. July 16 & August 1 1918

The organic theory on the contrary has always recognized the connection among social phenomena and the influence of the past in producing the facts of the present. [...] 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 the mother of the ideal ought at the same time to serve for the development of social life. [...] The conditions for the development of the psychic life of the individual and those of the development of social life are identical. [...] 13f1 cannot establish on the other hand in the social life that the idependence of the members of the society diminishes with the devlopment of the society. [...] The national life of the Hindus and the Jews was cotrolled to a large extent by a conception of the future in the case of the Hindus by that of the future life and in the case of the Jews by the expectation of coming of Messiah despite all the unfavour able conditions of their existence.