Search e-Library

... On Ideals and Progress Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Conservation and Progress Mankind thinks naturally in extremes or else reconciles by a patchwork and compromise. Whether he makes a fetish of moderation or surrenders himself to the enthusiasm of the single idea, the human being misses always truth of vision and the right pitch of action because... being half-animal, half-god, stumbling forward through the bewildering jungle of its own errors. This characteristic of human mentality shows itself in the opposition we create between conservation and progress. Nothing in the universe can really stand still because everything there is a mould of Time and the very essence of Time is change by a movement forward. It is true that the world's movement ...

... used as the title of this section in the present volume. On Ideals . Published in the Arya in June 1916. Yoga and Skill in Works . Published in the Arya in July 1916. Conservation and Progress . Published in the Arya in May 1916. The Conservative Mind and Eastern Progress . Published in the Arya in July 1916. Our Ideal . Published in the Arya in August 1915. When ...