Life and Times of C.R. Das. The Story of a Bengali's Self-Expression Being a Personal Memoir of the late Deshbandhu Chitta Ranjan and a complete outline of the History of Bengal for the first quarter of the Twentieth Century

Raja Rani Johan Roy wanted to do away with all the idolatiw and other evils of Hindu society and to establish the worship of the true the indivisible the omniscient and thJomnipotent Creatvr of the Universe and socially to bring beat to India the reign of reason and peace and goodwill. [...] But thOse were days when the foreigner generally exploited the resloure ps ofthe Raghunandan was a great Pundit and Lawgiver of the sixteenth century whose Smriti remained till about the end of the lagt century the principal code of laws for the regulation of the personal domestic and social life of the Hindus of Bengal. [...] The platform did not become a power in the land till about the end of Lord Curzon's viceroyalty and the Bar not before the recommendations of the Indian Bar Committee were given effect to in 1925 practically equalizing the position and status of Indian legal practitioners with those of the members of the English Bar. [...] We observe the same yearning for the mystery of a love that lives not in the flesh the same Shelleyan note of failing and falling upon the thorns of life " the same interweaving of the influences of Nature into the passions and emotions of the human breast and all " the tongueless vigil and the pain" of delicious emotional abandon. [...] Between the soul of the poet and the sea there is a sort of pre-established harmony and as the poet's moods take colour from the aspects of the sea so do the latter take colour from the poet's moods till the objective and the subjective seem to blend and mingle and become as one.