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Without the Foonomic History and its damning story of England's commercial and fiscal dealings with India we doubt whether the public tuind would have been ready for the Boycott. In this one instance it Iany bo hnid of him that ho not only wrote history but created it. But all his works, with the exception of the historical novels, were rather preces of succesful journalism and lectioneering than literature. Still, von where it was most defective, his work was always useful to the world. Forinstance, his Ramayan and Malubharuta, though they art ex. crablo poetry and do unpardonable violence to the spirit of the original, pet familiarised the average runder in England with the stories of the epics and thus made the way onsy for fatare interpreters of the East to the West. In brief, this may be said in unstinted praise of Romteb Chundra Dutt, that bu was a gigantic worker and did an immense amount of pioneer pule work by which the future will henefit
We have dwelt vu this interesting and vigorous personality as one of the most typical of the men that pass, much, toore typical than greater or nuoto origical contempor. aring. The work they did is over and the qualities with which they were equipped for that work will no longer sufficiently serve our purpose. An education at once more subtle and more massive, a grent originality, force and mange of intellectual aotivity, in insntiablo thirst for know igr, the glut of a giant for work and action, mighty qualities of soul, a superbuman courage, self-abnegation and power to enbrace and practise almost impossible ideals, these are the virtues und gifts India demands from the greatest among her song in the future so that they may be sutriciont to her work and her des tinien. But such gifty ng Romesh Dutta ponerent are not to be des. pised. Especially did his untiring eperty for work and his joyous vitality and indvetructible buoyaney make hina towering reproach to the indolent, latives necring and anaomio generntion that intervened buttoen him and tho recont renascence.
TAL NATIONAL VALUE -the entrepes, that which is OF ART.
seemly or outwardly decompus: Nee dikaion, that which is in sogurdance
with dike or nomoe, the law, custom 000m
and standard of humanity based on The work of purifying conduct
the sonde of fitness and on the sodified through outward form and habitual
or uncodified mass of procedents in Add sceinly regulation of expression,
which that sense has been expressmanner and action is the lowest of
ed in general conduct,-in other the many services which the artistic
words the just or lawful ; thirdly, sense has done to humanity, and
the agathon, the good, baged partly yet how wide is the field it covers
on the scemly and partly on the and how important and indispens.
just and lawful, and reaching able have its workings been to
towards the purely beautiful; then, the progress of civilsation! A
final and supreme, tho kalon, that still more important and indispen.
which is purely beautiful, thu yusable activity of the sense of boauty
preme standard. The most reis the powerful help it has given
markable part of Aristotle's to the formation of morality. We moral system is that in which do not ordinarily recogniso how ho classifies the parts of conduct largely our sense of virtue is a sense
not according to our idea of virtue of the beautiful in conduct and
and sin, papa and punya, but by vur henso of sia a sense of ugliness
purely aesthetic standard, the excess, and deformity in conduct. It may
defect and golden, in other world easily be recognised in the lower
correct and beautiful, mean of qualiand more physical workings, as for
ties. The Greek view of life was instance in the shuddering recoil
imperfect even from the standpoint from cruelty, blood, torturous things of beauty, not only because the went intolerably hideous to sight and
of beauty was not sufficiently cathoimagination or in the aesthetic dis
lic and too much attriched to a gust at sensual excesses and the
fastidious purity of form arid ontline strong rense, awakened by this and restraint, but because they were dingunt, of the charm of purity and cleficient in love. Hou as beauty, the beauty of virginity. This Srikrishna in Brindavau, Shyamalatter feeling was extremely active sundaru, is not only Beatty. He is in the imagination of the Groeks also Lovr, and without perfect lov.. and other nationy not noted for a
there cannot be perfect benuty, and
there high stindard in conduct, and it without perfect beauty there cannot was purely westhetic in its roots. be perfect delight. The aesthetic Pity'ngnin is largely a vital instinct motive in conducts limit and must in the ordinary man ghociated with be exceeded in order that hunwunity juguipua, the loathing for tho hid- roay rise. Therefore it was that the councy of its opposite, ghrina, Creek nould had to be broken and dingust at the sordidness and brutu humanity even revolted for the lity of cruelty, hardness and sel against beauty. The ngathull, thu tishness as well as at the ugliness of good, had to bo released for a time their actions so, that a common word from the bondage of the kulun, the for cruel in the Sanscrit language is westhetic sonse of beauty, just as it nirghrina, the inan without dingust is now struggling to deliver itself or loathing, and the word ghrina from the bondage of the cupropert! approximates in use to kripa, the
the dikaion, mere decoroustess, w e lower or vital kind of pity. But customi, nero social luw and rub. even on a higher plane the sense of The excess of this anti-aesthoti virtue is very largely aesthetic and, 1. tendency is visible in Puritanisht even when it omorges from the acs. And the baner forug of asceticism. thetic stage, must always call the
The progrony of ethics in Eirope hus sonse of the beautiful to its support been largely a struggle between the if it is to be safe from the revolt
the revolt Grcek sense of aosthetic beauty an! against it of one of the most.lecp- the Christian sense of a higher gool
marted on the que side by formalism. wcu the largetiess of this element if on the other by an unlovely we study tho idus of the Grocks, ovceticism, the Association of the who never got beyond the aesthetic latter with virtue has largely driven stage of morality. Thore woru four the sense of beauty to the side of grantions in Oreck ethical thought, vice. The goudl must not be sub
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