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Presidential Address
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Presidential Address
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"I am the spiritual lore among lores; I am the discourse of the seeker of the Truth among those who discourse. "-Bh. Gītā
Brother delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen.
At the last Annual meeting of the British Institute of Philosophical Studies, Sir Martin Conway, rising to second the vote of thanks to the President said: "In venturing to address this audience to-day I am giving a greater example of courage-perhaps I should say anxiety-than I have ever done in my life, for I have not the faintest claim to number myself amongst the Philosophers. But it has been my habit in life, when I was asked to do anything, to try to do it, and I am this afternoon on that footing just to fulfil as far as I can the demand made upon me." Although I have not been guilty of weaving a metaphysical cobweb myself, I confess I have felt interested in following the threads of some of the cobwebs of the world's great spiders, and still more in that greatest Spider Himself, Who has projected this world, and so far, in this minor sense, I cannot disown the label of a 'Philosopher' altogether. But I am sure I am not erring on the side of selfdepreciation when I say that the mantle which you have thrown upon me could have more appropriately fallen upon some other shoulders And yet, I am here before you at your bidding because, to use the
