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true that the range of our studies. 1 pitifully narrow and the books read miserably few. What is the reason of this paradox, the justificationof these two apparently contradictory truths It is this, that we neglect the basis and proeeed at once to a superstructure small in bulk, disproportionately heavy in comparison with that bnik, and but on 74 foundation weak to bear even the paltry and meagre elifice of our impart i knowledge. The Indian bran is stail in potentiality what it was but it is being damaged, stunted and desaced. The greatness of its mnate possibilities is hidden by the greatness of its surface deterioration. The old system hampered it with story in a foreign language which was not even impertecily mastered at il time when the Student was called upon to learn in that impossible medium a variety or alten and unfamiliar subjects. In this unnatural process it was crippled by the disuse of judgment. olery stron, compavhension and creation. and the exclusive hance the deteriorat ing relies of the ancient Indian memory. Finally, it was beggered
so common as the others,
beau pute creative gems is not common but in Europe they are. with a single modern exception, no existent. The highest creative nets in Europe have achieved signty by lantation, by strand
tre veel only in one field of a angle intellectual province or at most in two who they have been vestile it has been by sacntieng height to breadth. But in India itton seeks to undo the evil by employ.
degraded by having to deal with suppets and insuflicient packers of information instead of being richly stord and powerfully equipped. The new system of National edu.
is the greatest who have been the ast versatile and passed from one seld of achievement to another without sacrificing an inch of their height of an ota of their creative intensity, easily, unfalteringly, with an assured mastery. This easy and antailing illummation crowning the undailing energy created by Brahmacharya was due to the discipline which developed st twa o inner illumination. This llumination makes the acquisition of knowledge and all other intellec tual pentions casy, spontaneo is witt, deck ive and comparativ. ly unfatiguing to body or brain. In these two things bes the ecret of Aryan tellectual achievement. Brahmacharya un sattwe devele ment erted the brama of India it was perfecte by Yoga.
ing the mother tongue, restoring the use of the disused intellectual functions and providing for a richer and more ren equipment of information, of the substance of knowledge and the materials for creation. It it has not triumphantly succeed 1. that is partly because it has to deal with minds already vitiat d by the old system and not often with the best even of these, e cause its teachers have themselves seldom a perfect grasp of the requirements of the new system, and because its controllers and direetors are men of the old school who cling to familiar shibboleths and disastrous delusions. But in the system itself there is a defeet, which, though it would matter les in other epochs or other countr... is of primary importance in this perral of tr. nsition when bricks
It is a common complaint that our students are too heavily burdened with inany subject end the reding of many books The compla..st 18. utterly true, and yet it is equa iy
have to be made out of straw d the work now done will deterne the
future achievement of r nation. While calling itself nat: 1
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city no ther unusual nor astonishag, but, h, petty and Innated. The many witness of an Eratos themes or the range of a Herbert Sphe cacated in Europe
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shest comment: but the coversy of the ordinary nt India was bevogtudent and not for the panel ten an mhed, not a my wilgets after the
wenien plan, but the thorough in ister The onginal hem, a Kalalea accom phe bing the light ay line of 1 to eaction the Europese hard that it has been ught to cieve that mighty
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et of harmonies into a com mittee of three. Yet it is paralelled by the accomplishment in philosophy of Shankara in a short. lite of thirtythree years and warted by the universal mastery of a possible spiritual knowledge and experience of S Ramkrishna m our own era. These instances are
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al, it neglects the very foundations of the great achievement of our fore fathers, and especially the perfection of the instrument, of knowledge.
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It is not our contention that the actual system of ancient instructio shourd be restored in its ontwant features, demand often made by fervid lovers of the past. Many of them are not suited to modern requirements. But its fundamental principles are for all time and its discipline can only be replaced by the discovery of a still more effeetive discipline, such as European education does not offer us, object of there articles has been to indicate the nature and psychologi cal ideas of the old system ant point out its essential relation of cause and effect to the splendid achievements of our ancestors. How its principles can be reapplied or be completed and to some extent replaced by a still deeper psychology and a still tuore effective dis ciplin, is a subject for future handling.
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CHAPTER VIII. (Continued.)
The path of the soldiers took them precisely by the road where the Brahmacharin had stood in the highway near the jungle and gazed round him. As soon as they ar rived near the hill, they saw under it, on the top of a mound, a man standing. Catching sight of his dark figure silhouetted against the moonlit azure sky, the havildar said, "There is another of the r gues: catch him and bring here: he lil carry a lond."
At that a soldier went to catch the munn, but, though he saw the fellow coming to lay hold on bin the watcher stood firm; he did not stir. When the soldier laid hands on him, he said nothing. When he was brought as a prisoner to the havildar, even then he said nothing. The havildar ordered a load to be put on his head a soldier put the load in place, he took it on his head. Then the havildar turned away and started marching with the cart. At this moment a pistol shot rang
suddenly out and the havildar. pierced through the head, fell on the road and breathed his last. A soldier shouted, "This rascal has shot the navildar," and sized the
