... On the other hand, a real national unity broken up by circumstances will always preserve a tendency to recover and reassert its oneness." 8 Sri Aurobindo has given the example of the Greek Empire which has gone the way of all empires, but the Greek nation after many centuries of political non-existence, again possesses its separate body, because it has preserved its separate ego and therefore ...
... of China to those of the Greek empire. The succeeding kings made their religion (i.e., Zoroastrianism) the obligatory state-religion for Persis and Irāk. In consequence, the Buddhists were banished from these countries and had to emigrate to the countries east of Balkh... Then came Islam." Evidently, with his reference to the frontiers of China and the Greek empire, Albērūnī is following ...
... oneness; there is only a politically manufactured aggregate. On the other hand, a real national unity broken up by circumstances will always preserve a tendency to recover and reassert its oneness. The Greek Empire has gone the way of all empires, but the Greek nation, after many centuries of political non-existence, again possesses its separate body, because it has preserved its separate ego and therefore ...
... Again, is the bookishness such that it would inevitably interfere with the true nature of fantasy and feeling and of whatever else may be Romantic? The talk about scholars from the capital of the Greek Empire and about the study of the ancient Classics is apt to incline one to think of intellectuality and pedantry inhibiting the play of the spontaneous being. But the truth is thatthe Renaissance in full ...
... is only a politically manufactured aggregate. On the other hand, a real national unity broken up by circumstances will always preserve a tendency to recover and reassert its oneness. The Greek Empire has gone the way of all empires, but the Greek nation, after many centuries of political non-existence, again possesses its separate body, because it has preserved its separate ego and therefore ...
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