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been devised or rather found already ? Has not man secured a point of view which reverses their relative proportion altogether ? "Love, beauty, knowledge, and joy of life: these things retain their lustre however wide our purview." says Russell. Will he inquire why? His own finding is : Because " they have value on their own account." It is significant and gratifying that the modern scientist acknowledges that there is a world of values as well as of scientific facts. But just as scientific facts would be a hopeless jumble in the absence of a principle of unity, so would be the world of values, without a single principle of value underlying and overlaying all. Nothing has value on its own account, everything has value on account of Ātman the Supreme Self, says the Upanishad.
Ladies aud gentlemen, there are a few more movements which I should have liked to touch upon, namely, those of Bahaviourism, Pragmatism, Modernism, the theory of Valuation. But I feel that my notices of some of those which I have already dealt with have been very cursory, and I think, I should not make myself guilty of any more discourtesies. Simi. larly, much as I had wished to include some of the German and American figures in my review, I have had to omit them for want of room on my canvas.
In this arena of modern thought with its numberless " fighting Zones ” and groups of co-operating minds, India has a great part to play. She possesses a continuous history of more than three thousand years of deep philosophic thought and religious experience. This great inheritance has been often visualized as
