... formulate, started working in a way that ran counter to all the standardized, academic rules of the day. Instead of painting scenes from the Bible, from Greek or Roman history, or from traditional European history, they chose as their subjects everyday life – as they saw it. They painted scenes from Paris, its streets, churches and monuments, its cafés and dancing halls and their customers, its circus and... environment in which young Mirra grew up has given us an idea of the life of the bourgeoisie at the end of the nineteenth century.) This new dominant class, however, had no history of its own, for European history had been made, at least in the opinion of the premodern historians, by the Church and by the blue-blooded families of kings, counts and barons. The bourgeoisie had no historical or mythological ...
... material body, "all humanity and the whole creation" would not be what they are now. Such a stupendous spiritual phenomenon would have had a revolutionary effect both outward and inward in at least European history in general and especially the history of the church that formed in the wake of the alleged supramentalisation. If a real supramentalisa-tion had been achieved, the "Holy Spirit" which Jesus left... leave aside the whole creation. What Sri Aurobindo leads us to expect from a physical event like bodily supramentalisation has not shown even a thousandth part of itself in "post-resurrection" European history. Both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have looked on Jesus as a genuine avatar whose speciality of manifestation was love, a being of beauty sprung from the Divine Mother's heart (a spiritual fact ...
... by the comparative rarity of rapid revolutions and great cataclysmal changes; it is blinded by the disguise which Nature so often throws over her processes of mutation. If we look casually at European history in this light the attention is only seized by a few conspicuous landmarks, the evolution and end of Athenian democracy, the transition from the Roman republic to the empire, the emergence of feudal... together preparing a new society, the French Revolution, the present rapid movement towards a socialistic State and the replacing of competition by organised cooperation. Because our view of European history is Page 133 chiefly political, we do not see the constant mutation of society and of thought in the same relief; but we can recognise two great cycles of change, one of the ancient ...
... they have shown to keep their Indian Empire their own, might very well have been feeling the secret glow of an historic enthusiasm in insensibly thinking of similar figures in ancient and modern European history extolling their countrymen on similar occasions. What we meant by taxing him with want of historic perception was that he has betrayed a sad ignorance of Asiatic history. Asia has never embraced ...
... and control. He was in fact a limited or constitutional monarch, although the machinery by which the constitution was maintained and the limitation effected differed from the kind familiar in European history; and even the continuance of his rule was far more dependent than that of mediaeval European kings on the continued will and assent of the people. A greater sovereign than the king was the ...
... propaganda pictured a fat Jewish banker caressing a blond woman on his knee.” 541 In his Histoire de l’antisémitisme, Léon Poliakov shows how the handling of money became, in the course of European history, the only occupation left to the Jews, and their lifeline. This was why their attitude towards money grew into “a sacral attitude, source of all life. Little by little each step and each action ...
... ancient movements by the light of our very different modern intellectuality or pushed by the Page 322 besetting Occidental impulse to search in our Indian origins for parallels to European history—even assert that the Upanishads represent a protestant and rationalistic movement away from the cumbrous ritual, the polytheistic superstition and the blind primitive religiosity of the Vedas ...
... born near the village of Vinci, in the countryside of Florence, on April 15, 1452. He was baptized Leonardo and was to become one of the most brilliant figures in a fascinating period of European history, the Italian Renaissance. He is mostly known as an artist, but he was much .more, and his impact on the course of Western history has been immeasurable. Leonardo's unparalleled diversity of talents ...
... modern times. On the other hand, laying the blame on the Jews for Jesus' crucifixion in the Gospels became a major cause of the terrible anti-Semitism suffered by the Jewish people throughout European history. — Sabbath The seventh day of the week, on which observing Christians and Jews, even to this day, abstain from all work. According to Genesis of the Old Testament 1:31. Now ...
... inrush of forces from the subtle worlds at the time of the French Revolution and in Napoleon's time, changing the course of History. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, There was. It changed the course of European history and gave the world new political and social ideas. NIRODBARAN: Aldous Huxley says Napoleon and Caesar were bandits. SRI AUROBINDO: Nonsense. NIRODBARAN: He also says all evil, economic ...
... Page 26 the last century. A hundred years ago, it was Whitman who said: "Why should we take the idiom of Europe? Why should we idealise the characters of Greek mythology or European history? There is sufficient grandeur all around here in the democratic country where we are living. People are performing deeds which are equally capable of being called heroic." His idea is right, but ...
... laid down the form of empire-building in India and whose great administrative system survived with changes often for the worse down to modern times, lesser men than the rulers and statesmen of European history? India may not present any recorded moment of her life so crowded as the few years of Athens to which Mr. Archer makes appeal; she may have no parallel to the swarm of interesting but often disturbing ...
... the instruments given into her hands. The men who worked for her were of comparatively small intellectual stature and with few exceptions did not make and could not have made any mark in European history where no special Providence was at work to supplement the deficiencies of the instruments. The subjugation of India is explicable neither in the ability of the men whose names figure as the p ...
... I.C.S. by his record scoring in Greek and Latin. Fluent knowledge of French, Italian and German was another of his accomplishments. Together with his linguistic proficiency, close study of European history and institutions gave him insight into the whole heart of Western culture. On return to India, after deliberately absenting himself from the riding tests in the I.C.S. examination and thus ...
... finest efflorescences of the human spirit, literary as well as political — Socrates who came at the end of this Age and initiated most brilliantly and profoundly the reign of the inspired reason in European history. Literary power, political Page 93 wisdom, philosophical insight, besides Yogic seerhood, distinguish Sri Aurobindo who was a master of Greek and whose Il on, next to his Savitri ...
... English but also an extraordinary scholar of Greek and Latin. He grew perfectly familiar with French and knew Italian and German sufficiently to read The Divine Comedy and Faust in the original. European history was a special study of his and he steeped himself in Western culture ancient, medieval and modern. It was only after his return to Page 119 India that he plunged into a study ...
... Leonardo's drawing: human proportions Page 78 An Artist's View of the Human Body - Introduction of the Human Body The Renaissance is the period of European history which is marked by a break with the Middle Ages. Renaissance means re-birth. The first people to speak of the birth of a new and luminous age, who saw the previous period, the Middle Ages, as ...
... How much of this predominance is to be attributed to the long reign of Louis XIV is one of those questions that historians can speculate about but never answer. No one doubts that French (and European) history would have run in different channels had Louis never lived — or had he not lived Page 207 so long. He was born in 1638, became king in 1643, took the reins of power into his own hands ...
... London. Learnt Greek. In I886, started writing English poetry Wrote also Latin and Greek poetry. Learnt European languages to study their lite-ratures. Made a thorough study of European history. Won all Classics prizes. 1885 Had an inner perception of his future work for India's freedom. 1885-86 Then in his fourteenth year ...
... The Roots of Nazism The Roots of Nazism 10. The Jewish Question Hitler and his God A Less Prejudiced Attitude How, then, did the next stage in Europe’s history, the Enlightenment, treat the Jews? Its principle was a radical questioning of all certainties and dogmas formerly held to be unquestionable. The field of questioning was broadened constantly by... The ideals of the French Revolution pervaded the minds and the political practice only gradually, in the advancing and retiring waves of the nineteenth century revolutions with repercussions in all European countries. Hitler and Nazism, arisen on a soil which remained inimical to these ideals, attempted the ultimate effort to counteract and annul them. ... (Weiss). The many barbs against the Jews in his Philosophical Dictionary are there for all to read, e.g. “the Jews, our teachers and our enemies, whom we believe and detest”, or: “The Jews thus treat history and ancient fables as their old-clothes-men threat their worn garments: they turn them and sell them for new at the highest possible price.” Etc. 561 The English editor and translator of the Dictionary ...
... Führer When Hitler became the Führer 2. Masters Hitler and his God The Germanenorden [Order of Germanic People] It was around 1880 – an axis in European cultural history – that the self-consciousness of the Germans, not to say their superiority complex, took on inflated proportions. Thanks to the statesmanship of Bismarck they had finally succeeded, in 1871... centuries, industrious, intelligent, even occupying high places in their society: they were the Jews, now representing about one person out of every hundred in the country. Like the populations of other European nations, the Germans had a long-standing tradition of deep-seated anti-Semitism, centuries ago transmitted to them by Christianity, which taught that the Jews had killed their incarnated God, and ...
... Upanishads, the works of Vivekananda, the life and conversations of Ramakrishna, the Puranas, hymns, spiritual songs, etc. Among other volumes were the works of Bankim, patriotic songs, books on European philosophy, history and literature. A few of the men practised spiritual disciplines in the morning, some used to read books, still others to chat quietly. Occasionally there were roars of laughter in the peaceful... some of these accused persons without as much as glancing at what was happening around them, were absorbed in reading novels of Bankim Chandra, Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga or Science of Religions or European Philosophy. * Looking at these lads… one felt as if the liberal, daring, puissant men of an earlier age with a different training had come back to India. That fearless and innocent look in their ...
... the more because his heart is sensitive with chords that vibrate at once — as keen to feel the smite of earthly sorrow as to feel the caress of unearthly felicity. At the very head of European literary history we have Homer, a poor blind beggar wandering with his harp and dying without a home. After his death, seven cities disputed with one another to be considered his birthplace! Then there is... knock at the door. When he opened the door, he saw a gaunt old man with weary eyes, who, on being asked what he wanted, said just one word: "Peace." This man was Dante, the greatest poet of Mediaeval Europe. Not until he died did Florence wake up to his worth. And when he was gone it urged its claim for his body upon the city of Ravenna where he had been buried. Byron has referred to the poet's resting-place ...
... been accepted as absolute truth by Christians for 2000 years, and their influence in history and culture must be based on that fact. Historically, Christian missionaries took Christianity and the message of the Gospels to the barbaric tribes of Europe. With the spread of Christianity throughout barbaric Europe, came the forms of Roman law and Greek culture that eventually civilized these tribes... would become the urban Europe of history. Martin Luther King Jr. In modern times, one of the clearest examples of the Love of Jesus applied to a social problem was the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. in the movement which successfully led to the elimination of the racial segregation which degraded the black people of the southern states of the U.S.A. As history tells us, Dr. King's ... through history If we can understand the love that Jesus told us to have for God and each other, then how has this manifested itself over the 2000 years since his crucifixion? And by passing through history you can see that the Love Jesus opened our hearts and minds to is obvious throughout this history. This essay can only mention a few outstanding examples, but your own study of history should ...
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