Rabindranath Tagore
Published: 2018-04-26
Total Pages: 50
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"Sir Rabindranath Tagore is a Chrysostom, and his book, which is chiefly concerned with political theory, is a prose poem. Especially beautiful are the passages describing this secular life of India under her rulers and conquerors....His book is an arraignment of the Western state organized for power....The aspect of any one of the western states organized for power is anathema to him, driving as it does it tentacles of machinery deep into the soil; and to him therefore what he calls nationalism is 'a crude epidemic of evil.' Like Ruskin, he passes judgment upon our commercialism, with its barbarity of ugly ornament, and the standards of value of the western industrial state and its mechanical progress in which 'the civilization of humanity has lost its path in the Wilderness of Machinery.' 'The nation has thriven long upon mutilated humanity. Suddenly, all its mechanism going mad, it has begun the dance of the Furies, shattering its own limbs, scattering them into dust. It is the fifth act of the tragedy of the unreal.' He hopes, it would seem, for a Utopia such as Samuel Butler's where men have destroyed the machine they had made." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.