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...a “ha’p’orth the worse.” And their creditors have found a balm in time and philosophy. Bankruptcy is only painful and destructive to small people and ... ...at never get from “exercises” to practice. There is a pretence of studying philosophy based on Greek texts that few of the teachers and none of the ta... ...sh intellectual life. English comic writers never weary of sneering at the Hindu who claimed to be a “failed B.A.,” but what is the ordinary classical... ...point alike to such languages as Russian or, in the case of Great Britain, Hindustani to supply this sound training. If Great Britain means business a... ...stick at the petty expense of getting a few hundreds of good Rus- sian and Hindu teachers into the country, and she will place Russian and Hindustani ... ...on. But the essence of the higher education is now, as it always has been, philosophy; not the antiquated pretence of “reading” Plato and Aristotle, b... ...ly, surely , and exactly . For that we want less debating society and more philosophy, fewer prizes for forensic ability and more for strength and vig... ...f the pick at the open- ing of the mine. English, French, Russian, Arabic, Hindustani, Spanish, Italian; these are the great world languages that most... ...uages, but as a matter of primary importance I would say, for the British, Hindustani, for the Americans, Russian or Spanish, for the French and Belgi...

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... of life. The lowest savage, no less than his more advanced brother, has a philosophy of the uni- verse by which he solves the world-problem to his ow... ...oples in the earliest days of their wanderings. Whether they came from the Hindu Kush, or originated in Northern Europe, 21 The V olsunga Saga brough...

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...n some pas- sages there are indications that he was also occupied with the philosophy of mathematics. I take it he has transferred the whole of his me... ...d bodies. But how such a change may be possible is without the range of my philosophy. I have been a materialist for all my thinking life, but here, s... ...her 326 The Country of the Blind dark, still—I am not ashamed of having a Hindu great-grand- mother, but, for all that, I don’t want casual strangers... ...ly, with its Indian Civil Service associations, has kept up a knowledge of Hindustani from generation to generation— and none are absolutely plain sai... ... but with something of a tradition of the arts of old Peru and of its lost philosophy. Generation followed generation. They forgot many things; they d... ...eir instruction. And the eldest of the blind men explained to him life and philosophy and re- ligion, how that the world (meaning their valley) had be...

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...nourish the Renaissance. -- 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language ...

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...reece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern... ...d by any row with no pebble at the active end of the rod. Because the Hindu spiritual world came out of nothingness, it seems natural that Hindu... ...bylonians‘ numbering process. For certain, our word ―zero‖ stems from its Hindu roots. As noted earlier, Islam created an empire that stretched fr... ... absorb the wisdom of that culture, which did not fear the void. The Hindus had figured out how to use their new numeral system for fancy tricks... ...ized the nature of science. Arabs appropriated this simple system from Hindu mathematicians and then carried it to the West. By the time this ... ...ivisions for shelving books:  (000) Organization of knowledge  (100) Philosophy  (200) Theology  (300) Sociology  (400) Philology  (... ...en when he learned his first word of English but managed to major in both philosophy and math while he was earning his degree from Princeton in just...

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...dy. Wanda and I go way back. We got our doctorates at the same time at your alma mater Commander. Of course I was in psychology and she was in philos... ...g between our conscience and our more basic sensual pleasures. ―As you know, one of the basic questions in psychology, anthropology and philos... ...rdained!‖ —―I get the pun. I‘m sure Thomas Aquinas is turning over in his grave seeing you using language for frivolity rather than for philos... ... people have been highly instrumental in developing our morals, our mores, and our laws. ―These people‘s humor is real and related to philos... ...tive use of power to overcome inferiorities. It is obvious that ‗power over‘ is common in all societies. Whether it is the power of the oldest Hindu ... ...s against Christians or other Muslims—each being THE TRUE religion, has all the answers. When was the last time you heard of a war to advance Hindui... ...ance Hinduism? The Hindus, believing that all is One, or all is God, tolerate all beliefs as being within the One. This doesn‘t mean that some Hindus... ...ther it is the tolerant belief system or the poverty of the country that reduces the fanaticism found in the religions of the richer West—most Hindus... .... POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY RELIGIONS ―Muslin women may be killed if they don‘t marry the man their parents pick out. Hindu ...

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...brighter, I trust that these facts are symbolical of the height to which the philosophy and poetry and religion of her in habitants may one day soar.... ...a faint and shadowy knowledge of a previous state of organic existence.” The Hindus dreamed that the earth rested on an elephant, and the elephant on ... ...ose and Tr a y , the names of dogs. Methinks it would be some advantage to philosophy if men were named merely in the gross, as they are known. It w... ...ry that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. It is the lighting up of the mist by the sun. Man cannot kno... ...ho loses no moment of the pass ing life in remembering the past. Unless our philosophy hears the cock crow in every barnyard within our horizon, it i... ...e grow ing rusty and antique in our employments and habits of thoughts. His philosophy comes down to a more recent time than ours. There is something...

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...A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: in these papers, it may be hoped, western readers will have an opportunity of coming into touch with the ancient spirit of Indi...

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...No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, no church, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner table, library, exchange, But each ... ...res of my Western sea, the circle almost circled; For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere, From Asia, from the north, from th... ...ic, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru, The waters of Hindustan, the China sea, and the gulf of Guinea, The Japan waters, the b... ... that last longer than any, Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee, Served the mound raiser on the Mississippi, served those who... ...he blood of the brawn beloved of time is unconstraint; In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand opera, shipcraft, any craft, He o... ...na, To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricken wood and stone,) Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina, A band of bayaderes. ... ...and the wheel. The melodious character of the earth, The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go, The justified mother of men... ...ding thee, America, Old chants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian, The Biblic books and prophets...

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...things he boasted of. As a mountaineer, he had made an ascent of K2 in the Hindu Kush, the second highest mountain in In dia, and he made it without ... ...n interested in the oddities of mankind. At one time I read a good deal of philosophy and a good deal of science, and I learned in that way that nothi...

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...it for your child if she could get the same pay . Y.M. This is an infernal philosophy of yours. O.M. It isn’t a philosophy, it is a fact. Y.M. Of cour... ...akers Episcopalians, and the Episcopalians Mil lerites and the Millerites Hindus, and the Hindus Atheists, and the Atheists Spiritualists, and the Sp... ...niards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame religions, every kind of govern... ...f Commons and in the courts of law, he still found leisure for letters and philosophy. The noble treatise on the Advancement of Leearning, which at a... ... have taken all knowledge to be my province.” Though Bacon did not arm his philosophy with the weap ons of logic, he adorned her profusely with all t... ...ty or condition of irreverence toward God and sacred things. What does the Hindu say? He says it is correct. He says irreverence is lack of respect fo... ...ithin them. He endorses the definition, you see; and there are 300,000,000 Hindus or their equivalents back of him. The dictionary had the acute idea ... ...ied: for by the simple process of spelling his deities with capitals the Hindu confiscates the definition and restricts it to his own sects, thus ma...

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...il they escape and go forth to torture and slay the children of men; as in Hindu mythology, Kali (black) sits in judgment on the dead. Various other s...

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... peoples, eclipsed the cultures of communes, altered the course of history and afflict the politics of the day, this book examines how the sanaatana 'Hindu' dharma came to survive in India, in spite of the combined onslaught of Islam and the Christianity on Hinduism for over a millennium. This book is for those who wish to be aware of the follies of their faith and the foi...

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...an make it contextually mundane and temporally aggressive. Thus, the body of the Quran in its instructional mode accords Islam a code of conduct sans philosophy of discourse. However, as love and hatred are the obverse and the reverse of the same human emotion, the feeling of alienation towards ‘the others’, nevertheless, brings in the Musalmans a sense of rare together...

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...sia 27. The Stymied State 28. The Wages of God 29. Delusions of Grandeur 30. Ways of the Bigots 31. The Rift Within 32. The Way Around 33. The Hindu Rebound 34. Wait for the Savant...

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...VII: MYSTICISM ................................................................................................................... 365 Lecture XVIII: PHILOSOPHY ................................................................................................................................ 416 Lecture XIX: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS .................................................

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.......................................................... 365 Lecture XVIII: PHILOSOPHY ................................................................... ...lthy- mindedness and repentance— Essential pluralism of the healthy-minded philosophy— Morbid- mindedness: its two degrees—The pain-threshold varies i... ... states— They strengthen monistic and optimistic hypotheses. LECTURE XVIII PHILOSOPHY Primacy of feeling in religion, philosophy being a secondary fun... ...statements of religious experience, but uncoercive as reasoned proof— What philosophy CAN do for religion by transforming herself into “science of rel... ...ular science evolutionism of which I have re- cently spoken; and, finally, Hinduism has contributed a strain. But the most characteristic feature of t... ...are certainly not mere derivatives of theism. We find them in Stoicism, in Hinduism, and in Buddhism in the highest possible degree. They har- monize ... ...o give way to the facts and du- ties of the moment which came after.”[175] Hindu- [173] Claparede et Goty: Deux Heroines de la Foi, Paris, 1880, p. 11... ...ooks to give the visitors a better opinion of our scholarship.”[192] Since Hindu fakirs, Buddhist monks, and Moham- medan dervishes unite with Jesuits... ... believed in by educated pagans; it is thus that we ourselves judge of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Mohammedan theologies; Protestants have so dealt with ...

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... Will our literature escape at last from pretentiousness and timidity, our philosophy from the foolish cerebrations of university “characters” and emi... ...d come. T o the lonely youth upon the New Zealand sheep farm, to the young Hindu, to the trapper under a Labrador tilt, to the half-breed assistant at... ... other literatures well trans- lated into English, and all science and all philosophy, have to be brought within the reach of everyone capable of avai... ...- can universities towards Germany. The slow starvation and decline of our philosophy and science, the decadence of Brit- ish invention and enterprise... ... who came near raising public shift- lessness to the dignity of a national philosophy. Everything would adjust itself—if only it was left alone. Yet s... ...d directing religious organisations, as literature and art and science and philosophy, reflecting back upon the individual in the Normal Social Life f... ...y specialise extremely, for example, under such condi- tions as one had in Hindustan up to the coming of the present generation. There the metal worke...

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...that “by the grace of Allah, a safe base here is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan. ” But the T aliban, like the Sudanese, wo... ...”The authors expressed concern that “we have not fundamentally altered our philosophy or our approach” even though the terrorist threat had grown.They... ...were distrib- uted on specific topics.These included Bin Ladin’s political philosophy, his command of a global network, analysis of information from t...