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THE JAINA GAZETTE. Strange to say even science and philosophy have conspired to facilitate the evil career of the West. The intellectual discipline of science which undoubtedly is the greatest contribution made by Europe towards the wealth of world-knowledge has with an appalling readiness served the same political ideal. The different sciences vied with each other in proclaiming to the world that they could discern no spirit in Nature. The mechanic Principle of Explanation successfully employed by the Physical Sciences was taken up by the Naturalistic Biology of Darwin. Life and its changes were assumed to be simply a phase of the same cosmic process governed by physico-chemical principles. Natural Selection and survival of the fittest would be a sufficient explanation. The category of life was an unnecessary and superfluous luxury for science. Lifeless Biology had a willing playmate in a 'Soulless Psychology.' The climax was reached when Neitsch preached his religion of the Superman with “ The will to Power." Christian inorality was condemned as a 'Slave morality. He demanded a transvaluation of all values to be consistent with the spirit of the age. The Political world thankfully accepted the theory. Bismark supplied the model of diplomacy. Trietske sang the hallelujahs of the War Spirit. The end was the Armageddon, the raising of fire and brimstone, the destruction of Sodom and Gomarrah. It appeared for the moment that Europe would turn her back on the old idea with shame and remorse. But that was not to be. *The divisions of spoils revealed the same old soulless politics deep-rooted in the economic value. The frustrated humanity thus once again groans in despair.
Here it takes the form of Rachel crying for her children. It is the cry of the mother, with eyes “scorched with smoke and blurred with tears," looking back to the bitter woes of the near past, when the blackness of night came into our life, when our hope of the world was blasted, our love of the world-children was blighted."
It is the defeated love and anguish of the mother protesting with indignation against the old order of statecraft. It sobs out the protest with the burning hope that man's self will once again find its birthright in peace and good will.
It is said that war is a human instinct. War like cannibalism Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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