Jaina Gazette 1928

SR No.: 034890
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1928
Total Pages: 502
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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143 Religious quarrels, Crusades, sacking of temples, and bombing of mosques, churches, and other places of worship. always signify greed, love for peli and power, intolerance of other peoples, and hence irreligion.
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IN 2029 “We, at present, are escaping from the most personal and subjective era in the world's history an age when personality has been glorified and exalted above all else. I believe that by reaction and through the ever-growing importance of scientific method and results, the declining years of the twentieth century will be distinguished by an insistance on the objective in all departments of human activity," writes Lord Birkenhead in the "Century Magazine."
Thus by 2,029 men and women will seem, judged by our standards harsh and unemotional. They will have recaptured and transformed into new fashions, the precision. lucid sense and keen criticism which dintinguished the small educated world of te eighteenth century.
Wit rather than humour, comedy rather than farce, reason rather than sentiment, polish rather than naivete, ingenuity rather than ingeniousness will be valued. It will be an age in which Caesar or Voltaire might repeat his famous triumphs, but where Garibaldi would lack his meed of glory and Dickens would sob in vain."
Clairvoyance and Crime. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous writer and spiritualist, urges the employment of clairvoyants on the staff of the detective departments to be used in every baffling case, because he says, they will find clues where the police fail. He illustrates the help a medium is capable of giving, as follows :-“ A bloodstained knife is found. A clairvoyant inspects also the scene of
the crime, and says to the detective. I have a strong impression Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat