... called Areopagus consisting of elected aristocrats, ran both the government as well as the court. Pericles and his predecessor Aphialtes, had accomplished one of the greatest reforms in the judicial system that of .transference of the judicial powers from this council of aristocrats, to the heliaea, a law council consisting of 6000 jurors, annually drawn by lots from the citizen's register. Only ...
... either. It seemed that practically everyone in India was content with the mere pleasure of defeating an enemy in war. No one thought of seizing the history of the moment, and putting it through the judicial system and other apparatus of a civilized society. Had the Government of India and the political parties taken these steps, it would have been much less thinkable in the subcontinent for anyone to flaunt ...
... to remember the peculiar character of Arab society at that time, at least in so far as this part of the peninsula was concerned. There was an entire absence of any organised administrative or judicial system such as we connect with the idea of a government in modern times. Each tribe or clan formed a separate and absolutely independent body, and this independence extended itself also to the individual ...
... cheerful. When I told him that we wanted him to be released, he said, "Since yesterday, I have been thinking deeply of two great personalities - Socrates and Jesus. Both were victims of the laws and judicial systems of their times; both would have been able to avoid condemnation; but both voluntarily allowed the chariot of time to pass over them. And both knew God and His will, which is always right and which... to many people a system of physical exercises which belong to Hatha Yoga. It is not generally known that Hatha Yoga is only one of the several systems of Yoga and that in some of the most synthetic or integral systems of Yoga, most or all exercises of Hatha Yoga are optional or else they are dispensed with altogether. "Yoga is sometimes identified exclusively with the system of Yoga expounded... bearing on the existing caste system. Caste system is a very different thing from the ancient social ideal of Chaturvarnya and in no way corresponds with its description in the Gita. Take, for instance, the description of the Vaishya. The Gita speaks of agriculture, cattle-keeping and trade of every kind to be the work of the Vaishya; 1 but in the present caste system, the majority of those who are ...
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