Self-Government and the Bread Problem - A Series of Lectures (Lecture on the Poverty Problem Calcutta University and Principal Maharajah of Cossimbazar’s Polytechnic Institute)

We are able thetefore to show instances of things that have been done and to draw conclusions from them as to the most horibful lines of advance into the still unexplored social possibilitits that have now been shown to us by the events of the war as a flash of lightning shows us the landscape in the night. [...] It remains now for those who are in earnest to put these six:mentions to the test of practice ; and.there is a call to the educationalist and to the enthusiastic youth of the country that is of extraordinary hopefuness; thy Willy be the pioneers of organisations that may leato freedom for themselves and for their cotintry. [...] But now let us consider things from the highest plane of all the mom' plane where we see. the morals of the nation to be of the first importance the phyne on which the ethics of the means used are of greater importance than the speedy attaiRment of the end. [...] His opinion found ag echo in the country culminating in the establishment of the study of tilts subject in the Calcutta University and by the University Commision in the practical efforts of the Maharajah of Cossimbazar and the attempt lately started by Mr. [...] As regards the first the conditions of life of industrial workers tend to disintegrate most of the natural and 'Morally wholesome human relationships and even of the home itself whilst they deprive the workers of the great elevatjng influence of contact with and lov: of nature.