... The Standard Bearer on 13 March 1922 under the title "Hints and Clues". Passing Thoughts [2] : The Object of Government; The European Jail; European Justice. 1910. CMS II: 1-2. Around 1912 Sri Aurobindo revised and enlarged "European Justice" under the title "The Balance of Justice". That piece is published in Essays Divine and Human , volume 12 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO ...
... who may be perfectly innocent. This also is probably dictated by the finer feelings of Europe and intended mercifully to prepare their gentle and easy descent into the Inferno around them. European Justice The European Court of Justice is also a curious and instructive institution. Under a civilised disguise it is really the mediaeval ordeal by battle; only, in place of the swords or lances of ...
... a variant of this (see "The Silence behind Life" below) as the title of this part and of the volume as a whole. The Balance of Justice. Circa 1912. This is a revised and enlarged version of "European Justice" (published in Early Cultural Writings ), which probably was written in 1910. Social Reform. Circa 1912. The first nine paragraphs were typewritten. Sri Aurobindo s ...
... rise but rather depress it and push it back into the past. Moreover, Dr. Ray makes the same mistake which European writers made when they condemned the Middle Ages wholesale because they were a period of contraction and not of expansion. That mistake has now been recognised in Europe and justice has been done to that which was praiseworthy as well as to that which was bad in the "Dark Ages". We in India... training and the method of education followed point to a system far in advance of the National Council of Education which is still tyrannised over by a tradition and method not only European but unprogressively European. A brief instalment of Sj. Aurobindo Ghose's Karakahini is also given which describes the identification parades of the Bomb Case, gives some glimpses Page 566 of the approver... opposite extreme and see nothing good outside the mediaeval Hindu culture and forms, the same thing happened in Europe and for the same reason, as a reaction from that very intolerance and sweeping denunciation which are the spirit of Dr. Ray's article. It cannot last any more than it lasted in Europe. Some of the strictures we hold to be too much at second-hand; especially in his criticisms of religion the ...
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