... action and manner, and restraining both feeling and action by a striving after the decent, the beautiful, the fit and seemly which received its highest expression in the manners of cultivated European society, the elaborate ceremonious life of the Confucian, the careful ācāra and etiquette of Hinduism. At the present stage of progress this element is losing much of its once all-important value and ...
... modern politics, mutual suspicion and hatred the secret spring of action. Under the fair outside of its material civilisation, a deep-seated moral disease is at work eating into the vitals of European society of which a thousand symptoms strike the eye, from the extreme of bomb-throwing Anarchism to the other extreme of Tolstoy's Utopianism. Is India to be infected with the disease? The present conditions ...
... prevented,—though it may be for a time put off,—not because labour any more than wealth is the true basis of society, but because this is the logical and inevitable outcome of the whole evolution of European society. The rule of the warrior and aristocrat, the Kshatriya, founded upon power has given place to the rule of the Vaishyas, the professional and industrial classes, founded upon wealth and legalism ...
... modern politics, mutual suspicion and hatred the secret spring of action. Under the fair outside of its material civilisation, a deep-seated moral disease is at work eating into the vitals of European society of which a thousand symptoms strike the eye If India follows in the footsteps of Europe, accepts her political ideals, social system, economic principles, she will be overcome with the same maladies ...
... follower of methods and ideas borrowed from the West, a copyist of English politics and society." She was infected by the deep-seated moral disease that was gnawing at Page 514 the European society. The malady had entered into the Indian national system and was threatening to corrupt its blood and destroy the soundness of its organ. "If India follows in the footsteps of Europe," he predicted ...
... failure was the defect of knowledge, the excess of imagination. The basal ideas, the types, the things to be established were known; but there had been no experience of the ideas in practice. European society, till then, had been permeated, not with liberty, but with bondage and repression; not with equality, but with inequality and injustice; not with brotherhood, but with selfish force and violence ...
... conviction in the public mind that one innocent man had been convicted and succumbed to the rigours of jail life, while two are hopelessly condemned to the brutal and brutifying punishments by which European society avenges itself on the breakers of its laws,—we refer to the Kabiraj brothers found by Mr. Beachcroft to be innocent of conspiracy and therefore presumably innocent tools of conspirators. There ...
... doing things is not the best either for a man or a nation. One thing seems to me clear that the future will deny that principle of individual selfishness and collective self-interest on which European society has hitherto been based and our renovated systems will be based on the renunciation of individual selfishness and the organisation of brotherhood,—principles common to Christianity, Mahomedanism ...
... we must not unless we have a greater and more perfect thing to put in the place even of a crumbling and mouldering antiquity. To tear down Hindu society in the spirit of the social reformers or European society in the spirit of the philosophical or unphilosophical Anarchists would be to destroy order and substitute a licentious confusion. If we carefully remember these cautions, there is no harm in original ...
... economic depression, war, rebellion, and plague harried the people, and neither ecclesiastical nor secular governments seemed capable of easing their distress. At times the whole structure of European society seemed to be crumbling, as it had at the end of the Roman Empire. Yet the Europe that emerged from this time of troubles went on to conquer the world. The science and technology, the navies and ...
... Christian clergy began their 'good' work in Europe itself. They set out to erase the past. Culturally and materially. Under the pre-Christian Celtic society women's "position was highly advanced compared to their position in other European societies," comments P. B. Ellis. The honoured women, depolarized by the Roman Church, became 'chattels' in a male-dominated society. Christian clergy engaged in a systematic... Roman Catholic Church in the name of the 'Apostle of Love,' beggar all description. It was Europe's awakened intellectual spirit that began to revolt against the horribly inhuman acts of the Church in the name of its 'true religion.' The more they scrutinized the Christian dogma, the more the European intellect found out on what falsehood were based the claims of the Christian clergy. Page... life he waged a war to cut Christianity to size. His discerning intellect saw through the deliberate falsehoods spread by the missionaries, not to mention the cupidity of the Europeans sustained by Christian doctrine. "The Europeans," he pointed out, "have swarmed over India. They have brought war into that country. Many of them have amassed immense fortunes, but few have bothered to know about the antiquity ...
... on civic bodies." This state of affairs was quite contrary to the sentiments of most other ancient peoples. Except in the Egyptian and Celtic societies. "The position of women ... at a time when women were treated as mere chattels in most European societies, was amazingly advanced. Women could be found in many professions, even as lawyers and judges.... The Romans looked upon women as bearers of children... So much so that he was made an adviser at the court of the Kuru king. As for Yogis caste never counted for anything. All were free to search for the Divine. In Europe "social hierarchies had begun to emerge in some Ice Age societies." 1 Like it or not hierarchy is a fact of life. 1 To quote from the National Geographic (July 2000, p.110). Page 380 Not everybody... boiled together]. It was very tasty." Untouchability, which had taken such a rigid form in Hindu society, was unbearable to most enlightened men. So, in his Ashram, Tagore tried to break that rigidity with some novel schemes. But were mere outward reforms going to change anything basic in a society which seemed to have lost its spirit, Page 373 but had kept a decaying body? ...
... into reality as it is directly, genuinely experienced, in this case by the artist’s eye. The bourgeois society of the nineteenth century was the successor of a European caste society, which was as sharply divided as that in India. During the Ancien Régime, with its roots in the Middle Ages, society had consisted of the classes of the clergy (brahmin), the nobility ( kshatriya ), the merchants (vaishya)... to have been a centre of devotion to Shri Krishna. Jnanendranath Chakravarti was also a member of the Theosophical Society and in close contact with Annie Besant, later the head of that society. ‘[Annie Besant] travelled to America [in 1893, to represent the Theosophical Society at the World Parliament of Religions] with one of the other Theosophical delegates, Gyanendra Nath 96 Chakravarti,... member of the bourgeoisie, art and artists belonged to a shadowy, suspect social subgroup on the margins of society. Artists belonged to la bohême, the ‘bohemian life,’ a term made popular by Giacomo Puccini when he chose it as the title of one of his operas (1896), and meaning a world where society’s moral code was not observed. There are no published texts documenting this turn in Mirra’s life, except ...
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