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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) March 1942

1942

The earlier embryonic genesis of religion rose trona - the worship of the sun the moon and-the other forces of Nature such as the wind the rain the fire and pools and streams of water. [...] Simultaneously animals of husbandry such as the bull became an object of adoration to which were added the evil forces out of fear such as the cobra and the snake and the dragon and they were deified in the goddess Kali or the black demon of destruction and the Rig-veda was composed at this stage of human evolution. [...] But in later years with the rise of the doctrine of fuedamentalism or the special creation of man the soul was limited only to man but here again with the discovery of the unity of all life and the evolution of man therefrom the scriptural hiatus has become widened and remains a gaping chasm between science and religion. [...] It lingers in England because the King is still there the Defender of the Faith but even so the teaching1942] SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION 207 of science and the force of higher criticism has weakened its hold upon the people as witness the complaint of the clergy that not more than 5% of the people of London attend divine worship and of these the majority are women and children. [...] The theory of the state the theory of nationality and the theory of sovereignty in external affairs are getting modified on account of the dato-day activities of the Geneva Complex in regard to the affairs of the two hemispheres.
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Pages
97
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Science and Superstition
201-207 Hari Gour view
The League of Nations as an Interhuman Pattern
208-216 Benoykumar Sarkar view
Economics of Khadi by M. K. Gandhi
217-222 H.C. Mookerjee view
Francis Thompson and his “ Hound of Heaven ”
223-241 Cyril Modar view
Does Consciousness Exist ?
242-255 S.K. Chattopadhyay view
News and Views
256-258 unknown view
Miscellany
259-268 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
269-274 unknown view
Ourselves
275-281 unknown view
Backmatter
1-16 unknown view

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