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Presidential Address
a rich treasure which requires to be fully unearthed and placed before the world. As an humble worker in the mine, I would be the last person to deny the value of this kind of service. But I realise that the duty of the Indian Professor does not end there. He has to be not only a miner, but what is not less, he has to be a trader to carry the goods to the world's markets. I would change this sordid metaphor, and go further and say that he has to tranform dead matter into living thought in his own country before he takes it to other lands. When philosophic thought in India will become live, it will have features which will be definitely Indian. As Bosanquet said, agreeing with Wallace, "philosophy being, like language, art and poetry, a product of the whole man, is a thing which would forfeit some of its essence if it were to lose its national quality.' Let me not be misunderstood. While stressing the necessity of making it Indian I would repeat what I said at Benares that it should not cease to be human. To think otherwise is not nationalism, but national solipsism.
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