In 'The Human Cycle', Sri Aurobindo traces the evolution of human society and suggests where it is headed. In 'The Ideal of Human Unity', he examines the possibility of the unification of the human race...
Three works of social and political philosophy. In 'The Human Cycle', Sri Aurobindo traces the evolution of human society and suggests where it is headed. In 'The Ideal of Human Unity', he examines the possibility of the unification of the human race. In 'War and Self-Determination', he discusses the sovereignty of nations in the aftermath of the First World War. These works were first serialised in the monthly review Arya between 1915 and 1920; later Sri Aurobindo revised them for publication.
The war is over, though peace still lingers, her way sadly embarrassed by blockades, armistices, secret negotiations, conferences where armed and victorious national egoisms dispute the bloodstained spoils of the conflict, political and other advantages, captured navies, indemnities, colonies, protectorates, torn fragments of dismembered States and nations, embarrassed most of all perhaps by the endeavour of the world's rulers and wise men to found upon the ephemeral basis of the results of war an eternal peace for humanity. But still the cannon at least is silent except where the embers of war still smoke and emit petty flames in distracted Poland and Russia, and peace though a lame and perhaps much mutilated peace must before long arrive. The great war is over and that may seem the main thing to [sentence left incomplete]
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