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Presidential Address
words of Sir Martin once more, “it has been my habit in life, when I was asked to do anything, to try to do it, and fulfil as far as I can the demand made upon me."
I cannot begin my address without a word of sorrow for the death of Viscount Haldane, who whatever else he was or was not, was certainly first and foremost a philosopher of powerful intellect, who besides endeavouring to investigate and map out a pathway to Reality perceived the potentialities of Einsten's theory of Relativity and applied it to various problems of Philosophy with a breadth of vision all his own. Only recently his eagle eyes had turned towards the East, and he had begun to feel .
“ Like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken," But alas, before he could survey the new world in detail, he passed away, to the deepest grief of all those who feel interested in the future of Indian Philosophy. May his soul rest in peace!
Ordinarily, a President would be expected to review generally, without entering into minute details, the activities of the year in his subject, and to indicate their general tendency and significance, so as to keep his comrades wide awake to the problems of the day. But in the subject of Philosophy this task is rendered difficult by a number of causes. In the first place, in Philosophy every year is not marked by outstanding discoveries of truth, while indication of general tendencies is attended with difficulties which are peculiar to this subject. Fichte was not altogether wrong when he said that "the kind of Philosophy that a man chooses depends upon the kind of man
