The Awakening of IndiaHodder and Stoughton, 1917 - 159 頁 |
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第 47 頁 - It was only when I began to study psychical research and mystical philosophy that I broke away from my father's influence. He had been a follower of John Stuart Mill and so had never shared Rossetti's conviction that it mattered to nobody whether the sun went round the earth or the earth round the sun.
第 151 頁 - Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Grand Commander of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire...
第 34 頁 - It is obvious that female illiteracy acts as a serious bar to educational progress. If half the population grows up practically illiterate, incentive to education in the other half must be sensibly lowered ; and when home education is almost unknown, education in general appears as something extraneous to the real life of the people. An artificial state of affairs is indeed created by imparting it. The youth does not find in his home the environment and thoughts which surround him in the class room.
第 10 頁 - an immense advance in the position of India in the Empire," and admitted " the Government of India to full partnership in the Councils of the Empire...
第 84 頁 - three hundred white women had been raped by negroes within the preceding three months," and the Bishop thought that the editor's estimate was low.13 Black leaders too were perplexed. Some were driven to conclude that where there was so much smoke, there must be at least some fire.
第 135 頁 - ... years occupied the high position of Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab University. Dr. Ewing said he was a friend of the British and a friend of the Indian, and he had always tried to maintain an unbiassed attitude in the consideration of all questions pertaining to the two races. " And so," he added, " when I tell you that the stories of oppression which are being published in America are false, I speak from an impartial standpoint. The British Government in India undoubtedly has its faults, but...
第 10 頁 - The object of the 1917 Resolution was to enable India to be represented at future sittings with the same right of speech and vote as was accorded to representatives of the other participating Governments. Its acceptance marked " an immense advance in the position of India in the Empire...
第 103 頁 - I speak with the authority arising from close associations with my brother rulers when I tell you that they too love their King-Emperor and will follow where he leads, through thick and thin.
第 103 頁 - There is no sacriGce which he might ask of me that I would not make. My resources, my life and the lives of the men of Bikaner belong to him. I myself am a ruler, the descendant of sovereigns who have held our land for centuries. We are a proud race, but I would gladly kneel to lift the shoes of His Majesty were he but to command, though I would do that for no one else in the wide world.
第 139 頁 - that in time to come a constitutional assemblage may grow out of these conferences which will take its place in the government of this great empire, but for the moment I would say to you to content yourselves with the prosaic but useful task of advising the Government of India on certain specific matters.