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TULSI PRAJ ÑĀ "Our society has reached a stage of maturity when it is clear that the lofty and eternal values, the questions of spirit and morality, such as meaning of life, search of that meaning, spirituality, honour, truth, compassion, firmness of principle and conscience, are our own values, that is, of real, i.e., socialist, communist, humanism which our system and way of life assert. The failure of abstract humanism lies not in its preaching of the vast importance for mankind of truth, goodness and conscience, categories that have great relevance for all of us, but in an idealistic interpretation of these values that removes them from social context and its impotence to change the world and men for the better." .
Let me close the paper by stating that all values appear to be subjective; amenable to interpretation in terms of Space and Time. It would be difficult to say the last word in this regard. One must go on with the quest - a quest regarding the values that one's society should uphold.
January-March 1993
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