CHAPTER XXI The Drive towards Legislative and Social Centralisation and Uniformity                                THE gathering of the essential powers of administration into the hands of the sovereign is completed when there is unity and uniformity of judicial administration, - especially of the criminal side; for this is intimately connected with the maintenance of order and internal peace. And it is, besides, necessary for the ruler to have the criminal judicial authority in his hands so that he may use it to crush all rebellion against him- self as treason and even, so far as may be possible, to stifle criticism and opposition and penalise that f

CHAPTER VIII The Problem of a Federated Heterogeneous Empire IF THE building up of a composite nation in the British Isles was from the beginning a foregone conclusion, a geographical and economical- necessity only prevented in its entire completion by the most violent and perverse errors of statesmanship, the same cannot be said of the swifter, but still gradual and almost unconscious process by which the colonial empire of Great Britan has been evolving to a point at which it can become a real unity. It was not so long ago that the eventual separation of the colonies carrying with it the evolution of Australia and Canada at least in

.. Page-22 Quantitative Experiments   Cry of the ocean's surges, the long hexameter rolling,               Covers my spirit as tides roll over rapturous shores. Foam on its tops1 the pentameter curls to its cadenced closing,               Two high waves, then a hush swoons on the ear in its fall.            Horse hooves trampled the crumbling plain with their four-footed gallop. * Fiercer griefs you have suffered; to these too God will give ending * Him shall not copious eloquence leave nor clearness and order.     1 Or, head. Page-23 The Ganges   Suddenly out from the wonderful Last like a

Page-1 On the Barisal Proclamation         WITH a Fraser and a Fuller holding the bureaucratic sceptre there could be little doubt which of the two alternatives would recommend itself to the authorities. Sir Andrew Fraser, hampered with the traditions of legality and bureaucratic formalism, has begun cautiously, thundering loudly but sparing the lightning flash. Mr. Fuller, violent, rude and truculent in character and accustomed to the autocracy of a non-regulated province, has rushed like a mad bull at the obnoxious object; his violence may or may not temporarily defeat itself by compelling the Government of India or the Secretary of State to i

Hymn to Dawn         LO, DAWN, the Beloved, appears in her gleaming young body. She impels all Life on the path towards the goal. Fire, the Divine Force, is born to be kindled in man. Dawn drives away all Darkness and fulfils herself in creating Light.       She, the Goddess, rises lifting her forward gaze towards the Vast, the Universal. She has put on the robe of Light and displays the white brilliance of her subtle norms of Truth. Heaven-gold is her hue, her vision is all-round seeing: verily, she is the mother of the herd of brilliances of knowledge, a leader of our bright days; her luminous body is disclosed.       The Goddess, All-Enjoyment she is: she comes carrying

Originality in National Literatures         It is a singular and as yet unexplained phenomenon in the psychology of mankind that out of so many magnificent civilisations, so many powerful, cultured and vigorous nations and empires whose names and deeds crowd the pages of history, only a select few have been able to develop a thoroughly original and self-revealing literature. Still fewer have succeeded in maintaining these characteristics from beginning to end of their literary development. There have been instances in which a nation at some period of especial energy and stress of life has for a moment arrived at a perfect self-expression, but with the effort the

The Cosmic Divine         I UNDERSTAND now what is your difficulty about the Cosmic Divine. It was not present to my mind because I look at these things from the point of view of facts as they are both to our spiritual and our outward experience — whereas the point of view on which you lay stress is that they are not what they ought to be or what the mind, ethical feeling and the vital in man feel that they ought to be. That this world is full of queer, ugly and inharmonious things is the very plain and self-evident fact which we have to start with, — wherever we may want or hope to arrive. But the whole question is there, whether there is something behind, something that warr

No. 5 THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER V THE DESTINY OF THE INDIVIDUAL        By the Ignorance they cross beyond Death and by the Knowledge enjoy Immortality... By the Non-Birth they cross bend Death and by the Birth enjoy Immortality. Isha Upanishad.       An omnipresent Reality is the truth of all life and existence whether absolute or relative, whether corporeal or incorporeal, whether animate or inanimate, whether intelligent or unintelligent; and in all its infinitely varying and even constantly opposed self-expressions, from the contradictions nearest to our ordinary experience to those remotest antinomies which lose themselves on th

No. 1 1  THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER XI DELIGHT OF EXISTENCE: THE PROBLEM         For who could live or breathe if there were not this delight of exist-e nee as the ether in which we dwell. Taittiriya Upanishad.     From Delight all these becomings are born, by Delight they exist and grow, to Delight they return. Ibid.     But even if we accept this pure existence, this Brahman, this Sat as the absolute beginning, end and continent of things and in Brahman an inherent self-consciousness inseparable from its being, throwing itself out as a force of movement of consciousness which is creative of forces, forms and worlds, we have yet no answer to the

  CANTO TWELVE   THE HEAVENS OF THE IDEAL   ALWAYS the Ideal beckoned from afar. Awakened by the touch of the Unseen, Deserting the boundary of things achieved, Aspired the strong discoverer, tireless Thought, Revealing at each step a luminous world. It left known summits for the unknown peaks: Impassioned, it sought the lone unrealised Truth, It longed for the Light that knows not death and birth. Each stage of the soul's remote ascent was built Into a constant heaven felt always here. At each pace of the journey marvellous A new degree of wonder and of bliss, A new rung formed in