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Presidential Address
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for which I am pleading is established the gain will not be always on one side. The mathematical theory of Einstein, and Haldane's application of it to Philosophy so as to mark the inauguration of the reign of Relativity, will be as good and original an exposition of Indian Idealism as any hitherto written in the school of Šamkara or Rāmānuja.
This is a bare list of references to a few of the innumerable points in which the philosophies of the East and the West can meet and lead a common life. However, it should not be understood that the resemblances here indicated are in all cases complete. But this very fact will make their common life more interesting. For, life is a net-work and not a parallelogram of forces. The great obstacle, however, which has hitherto blocked the way is that the philosophy of the East has not been made fully available to the West. Dr. Ganga Nath Jha has rendered invaluable service to the cause of Indian Philosoyhy by translating some of its abstruse works into English. These have been availed of by a few Orientalists of the West, but Indian Philosophy as a whole or in detail has not yet become a subject of popular study nor has it acquired a place as philosophy in the great seats of learning in Europe and America. The only way to obtain its recognition is to present it in the form which will be intelligible to the Western reader and this it is the business of the members of this Congress to attempt. For this purpose it may sometimes be necessary to alter its phraseology, or restate its propositions and adapt them to modern forms of
