... an opportunity to define the role of sports generally and also to answer some of the doubts obstreperously floating in the Ashram atmosphere. Sri Aurobindo recalled how, at the height of the Hellenic civilisation, "all sides of human activity were equally developed and the gymnasium, chariot-racing and other sports and athletics had the same importance on the physical side as on the mental side the Arts ...
... colonised Europe or that those European peoples came and settled in ancient India. Again, the mere absence of Brāhmanas and Śrāmanas in the country of Aśoka's subject Yonas is no pointer to Hellenic civilisation alone. In the borderland between India and Irān, where the Yonas were situated, a country could easily be without Brāhmanas and Śramanas because of the Mazdean religion , the Zarathustrian ...
... the older the nation the longer it lived. Take, for example, the oldest nation recognized as such in history, Egypt; her life-span is to be measured not by centuries but by millenniums. The Hellenic civilisation that succeeded the Egyptian did not last as long and yet it lasted more than its own successor, the Roman, did. How was it then the more ancient people resisted more successfully the forces ...
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