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which shall conserve all that is best in the old, assimilate all that is good in the new and present a frame-work within which the soul of a nation, anchored firmly to its spiritual moorings, shall find the fullest opportunity for self expansion. This is their obligation to society.
Simply reading books, getting certain passages by heart and leaming languages is not education in its proper sense but a few steps onward towards it. This sort of education converta into fanaticism. Nay l-real education calls forth the inper power from the man. It fings open the closed gates of new ideas and energies and thus make one a suitable instrument for revealing the excellences of harmony, punty, freedom, toleration and a sense for the services of humanity. From this edacation fow the currents of inven. tive genius and new ideas and thoughts. A man of this sort of intuitional education paints human life and society in the coloured beauty of the Divinity thus becoming a source of constant inspiration and harmony to the world so long he lives in flesh and blood.
If soch a right faith once enter in our lives, we in this busy work-a-day world of ours will be able to change impotence to power, weakness and suffering for strength and happiness, pain and unrest for joy and peace. We must build our lives from within and we agtomatically attract from without. More spiritualized are the thoughts more subtle and powerful they become 10 their workings.
