Opis: Reflections on the Problems of India (Classic Reprint) - Wadia Ardaser Sorabjee N.

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My Dear Owen,

You will remember on a certain occasion when Boswell was indulging in one of his heroics, Johnson turned round and said, "My dear friend, clear your mind of cant." I believe at the present moment no sounder advice could be given to the Educated Classes in India than in those memorable words of the bluff old Doctor, and my efforts in the following pages are solely or mainly directed towards assisting my Countrymen in clearing their minds of cant.

One thing I wish you to bear in mind is that I do not pretend to solve the Problems of India as most other writers have attempted to do before me; I only venture to give my reflections on them, or rather, the thoughts that have crossed my mind while reading all the wit and wisdom that the leaders of Indian thought have so lavished upon them.

Some of my readers will be sorely tried by my reiteration of certain facts and arguments, but repetition is often unavoidable, and at times even necessary for the purpose of driving home a point or establishing a principle, and may be defended on the Socratic dictum that: "We ought to repeat twice, and even thrice, that which is good." Others will be equally distressed by my unmitigated cynicism as displayed in the first two chapters, but I would warn them to withhold their judgment till they have finished the third chapter, otherwise they themselves - unless they have a sufficiently developed personality to follow me in all my passionate ardour and overflowing enthusiasm for the cause of true, robust humanity - will stand confessed comparative cynics long before they have gone through half of that chapter.

Mr. H. P. Mody - to whose rare and delicate penmanship many a sentence of mine owes its 'decent existence and position in life,' - took me to task for being at times unnecessarily aggressive, and mixing up persons with the principles they propound.

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Nazwa: Reflections on the Problems of India (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Wadia Ardaser Sorabjee N.
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330384992
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 190
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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