Dickinson, Lowes : Goldsworthy L. Dickinson (1862-1932), educated at King’s College & later a Fellow there, he wrote on international relations in a liberal vein.
... noblest expression." Page 14 Lowes Dickinson and Pundit Nehru never felt this because neither could command "the right spirit". The reasons for this, however, would take me beyond the scope of my book. So to resume. Unlike the typical positivist mind just referred to, I felt that I had a congenital streak of the mystic which Dickinson dubs incomprehensible and Punditji medieval.... depths of the authentic Indian soul which cannot open permanently to any gospel other than that of the spirit no matter how high the stakes are. Apropos, I am reminded of a striking remark of Lowes Dickinson, the famous rationalist who, after touring the Far East, wrote that neither Japan nor China was incomprehensible to the Western mind: it was only in India that he had been held up as before something ...
... may be a faultless painter himself, it is Raphael "pouring his soul" that is the real master; when Raphael paints "its soul is right". If one fights shy of the word 'soul', one might say with J.L. Lowes that words in poetry have more connotation, that they are charged with suggestion, whereas mere prose words have only denotation, a physical content. Actually, although all art and poetry may... —Hopkins A quartz contentment like a stone; 59 —Emily Dickinson Night is the beginning and the end And in between the ends of distraction Waits mute speculation; 60 ... legerdemain; Tate, Robinson and Eliot, all three seem to make play with 'night' or 'dark; Yeats seems to charge 'ravening' and 'desolation' with a certain violence; 'quartz' and 'stone' in Emily Dickinson and 'holy hush' in Wallace Stevens seem verbal tricks at first. Yet, in the particular contexts, when the words sink into the inward ear, the lines acquire a life and soul of their own, and, perhaps ...
... I stop here for today. Page 442 Today a Kanchenjunga of correspondence has fallen on my head, so I could not write about humanity and its progress. Were not the later views of Lowes Dickinson greyed over by the sickly cast of a disappointed idealism? I have not myself an exaggerated respect for humanity and what it is—but to say that there has been no progress is as much an exaggerated... believe in, the sum-total of all souls,—and above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species is the special object of my worship. He who is the high and low, the saint and the sinner, the god and the worm, Him worship, the visible, the knowable, the real, the omnipresent; break all other idols. In whom there is neither past life nor future birth, nor death ...
... pleasure. To the Indian mind the gods are friends and helpers. 2 June 1936 Page 529 Lowes Dickinson What would you say on the contrast between Lowes Dickinson's Modern Symposium (1905) and his post-war dialogue, On the Discovery of Good? The pre-war and the post-war Dickinson are indeed a contrast. This appreciation of human life is not without the force of a half truth, but... Russell's book [ Why I Am Not a Christian ]; as soon as I can do so I will let you know if I have anything to say about him. I have already said that I have no objection to anybody admiring Russell or Lowes Dickinson or any other atheist. Genius or fine qualities are always admirable in whomever they are found; all that has nothing to do with the turn of a man's opinions or the truth or untruth of atheism or... making it possible, is undeniable. That is why I call him devastating,—not in any ostentatiously catastrophic sense, for there is a quietly trenchant type of devastatingness,—because he has helped to lay low all these things with his scythe of sarcastic mockery and lightly, humorously penetrating seriousness—effective, as you call it, but too deadly in its effects to be called merely effective. That is ...
... to the rigorous scientific pursuit of the development and organisation of material life. Across this possibility falls the shadow of India. Sir John Woodroffe quotes the dictum of Professor Lowes Dickinson that the opposition is not so much between Asia and Europe as between India and the rest of the world. There is a truth behind that dictum; but the cultural opposition of Europe and Asia remains ...
... God! I have no name for it, none, Page 178 The heart is all, and the name Nothing but clamour and smoke Clouding the glow of the sky. (Helen Stawell and G. Lowes-Dickinson) . Spoken by a lover, the passage is more Shelleyan than Wordsworthian, but it compasses too the essence of Wordsworth's feeling, in a more excited voice than his - his feeling, for instance... informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile Man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all. The lines are undeniably effective and are poetic by just managing to bring in some element of rhythmic emotion and vision ...
... × Worthy is the World is the title of a book by Beatrice Bruteau on Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , p. 143. ... viewpoints another classification of the same things can be equally valid.” 24 Secondly, “Consciousness is the great underlying fact” 25 everywhere in the manifestation, down from high to low and up from low to high. For Brahman is Consciousness, and Consciousness is Being, and Being is Delight – everywhere and in everything without exception. Thirdly, Consciousness does not evaporate as ...
... eager eyes; One in his brain deep-mansioned labouring lies And clamps to earth the spirit's high desire. These lines may be compared to some of Goethe's in Faust, Englished by G. Lowes Dickinson and Susan Stawell in their Goethe and Faust published several years after In the Moonlight. The translation runs: Twin brethren dwell within me, twins of strife, And either fights to ...
... moment's time to go through Russell's book; as soon as I can do so I will let you know if I have anything to say about him. I have already said that I have no objection to anybody admiring Russell or Lowes Dickinson or any other altruist. Genius or fine qualities are always admirable in whomever they are found; all that has nothing to do with the turn of a man's opinions or the truth or untruth of atheism... needed atmosphere. December 24, 1932 Today a Kanchenjungha of correspondence has fallen on my head, so I could not write about humanity and its progress. Were not the later views of Lowes Dickinson greyed over by the sickly cast of a disappointed idealism? I have not myself an exaggerated respect for humanity and what it is—but to say that there has been no progress is as ____________... it possible, is undeniable. That is why I call him devastating,— not in any ostentatiously catastrophic sense, for there is a quietly trenchant type of devastatingness,—because he has helped to lay low all these things with his scythe of sarcastic mockery and lightly, humorously penetrating seriousness— effective, as you call it, but too deadly in its effects to be called merely effective. That ...
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