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ition runs counter to the fundamental urges of personality, that is, to freedom, which Graham Wallas defined in a happy phrase as continuous initiative to growth from within, to fulness and harmony in growth, to aspiration and creativeness, in a word, to self-realization. Subjection, accordingly, evokes resistance. The masters seek to weaken the springs of resistance and to organise acquiescence through propaganda, that is, through lowering the scale of values and playing on baser impulses like fear, greed, inertia and selfishness. Human adjustments have thus been permeated by force and fraud, so that a modern sociologist has concluded that they are just the principles on which civilisation has so far been based.
The Root Problem of the Modern Age. ! The indictment is true, above all, of the modern age which has during the last hundred years witnessed, the annihilation of distance and close juxtaposition of divergent races, peoples, cultures and outlooks, Efforts of a new adjustment were inevitable but these have often been inspired by motives of group aggrandisement so that an eminent scientist and social thinker, Bertrand Russell, is led to observe that the concept of power is as fundamental to politics as that of energy to physics. The progress of science may be regarded as the crucial factor in the history of the last two hundred years. It released forces of production and organisation which have brought comfort and entertainment, knowledge
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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