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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) December 1938

1938

In their turn these ' ends ' present all the characteristics of ' truth ' of a moral truth that trancends the individual judgment as that which is the result of a secular collective action The question arises: must the individual repeat ex novo the experience of past generations or is it not rather preferable that the experience of the past should be utilized to the ends of the individual w [...] They deny the possibility of the materialistic conception of happiness and they abandon it to the economists of the first half of the eighteenth century. [...] The poem was published by C. and J. Oilier of London in the summer of 1821 and the author's name was kept a secret in order "to avoid the malignity of those who turn sweet food into poisou.'' In the advertisement to the poem Shelley himself compares it with Dante's Vita Nouva "as sufficiently intelligible to a certain class of readers without a matter of fact history of the circumstances to which [...] The sub-title " The Spirit of Solitude " is reminiscent of the early ghost-belief of the poet and is indicative of the effect m hich he wants to produce. [...] It must consult moral experience directly finding in the world of our ordinary moral and social effort a spiritual reality that raises the individual "out of and above and beyond himself." This action-philosophy of the pragmatist has caught the mind Of the present busy bustling age which must create must add something to the world and fulfil the desire of and clear the path for the onward rush
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Pages
128
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Education and Authority
233-238 Mario Missirol view
Shelley’s Epipsychidion—A Study
239-258 P.N. Roy view
Philosophy of Pragmatism
259-266 Dhirendra Roy view
Herbart and his Contribution to Modern Vocational Education
267-272 Debendra Dasgupta view
Moral Education the Need of the Hour
273-277 J.C. Guha view
Malayasia and French Indo-China
278-280 Taraknath Das view
Organised english commercial relations with india (from 1620 to 1661)
281-289 J.C. De view
The Instinct of Fear
290-295 S.M. Mohsin view
T.S.Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral”
296-306 Rabindrakumar Dasgupta view
Some Remarks on Green’s Metaphysics
307-320 Biswanath Bhattacharyya view
News and Views
321-323 unknown view
Miscellany
324-332 Benoy Sarkar view
Reviews and Notices of Books
333-336 unknown view
Ourselves
337-344 unknown view
Backmatter
1-16 unknown view

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