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Presidential Address
Give us to build above the deep intent. The deed, the deed."
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The philosophical justification for this cry lies in the truth which is expressed by Carlyle in his own quaint manner in a sublime passage of his prose epic of the French Revolution where he says: the Universe is an infinite conjugation of the verb ' to do."
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One more type of anti-intellectualism which particularly deserves to be noticed because of the Indian parallels which it suggests is that represented by Bergson in his doctrine of Intution which he distinguishes from Intellect. For our ordinary business of life we rely upon Intellect, but for direct touch with Reality we have to look for Intuition. Our awareness of personal existence is intuition, but our study of the ego as an object of thought can be done only by intellect. "Thus there are two ways of knowing a thing," says Bergson: in one we move round a thing, in the other we enter into it which is a kind of intellectual sympathy by which one places oneself within an object, in order to coincide with what is unique in it and consequently inexpressible. The first provides symbols and points of view, but not the Reality itself, one is what the Indian philosopher would call सविकल्पक ज्ञान, the other निर्विकल्पक साक्षात्कार or अपरोक्षानुभूति. How the former fails to grasp Reality Bergson shows by interesting analogies: Were all the photographs of a town", he says, taken from all possible points of view to go on indefinitely completing one another, they would never be equivalent to the solid town in which we walk about. Were all the translations of a poem into all
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