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Journal of the Banaras Hindu University (General Section)
1953
Summary
Our first law-giver Manu has given the highest place of honour to the mother and next after her to the father and the teacher : 3qTarr qkTs1114: qiffsil Itt Mirr fq-dr tie;f1cJ mur 41-ckurs1 IR-14a `The father exceedeth the teacher a hundred times in the title to reverence ; but the mother exceedeth the father a thousand times in that as well as in the quality of educator'. [...] The unchecked growth of these was the direct cause of the two world wars ; and the nations have not learnt the lesson of them yet and are therefore heading towards a third and far worse. [...] The frequency of hartals strikes in all departments of the public services and in mills and factories is evidence of the urgency of the Bread Problem. [...] The League paid little heed to the petitions of the nations who were demanding revision of their fates and complained against the state of affairs resulting from the most unjust treaties and pacts but the League remained adamant. [...] He said "There are four significant factors in the modern world which have to be kept in mind considering the possibility of applying Gandhian techniques to the solution of internal and international tensions : the first the advance of science that has created conditions which can either eliminate hunger and disease or can annihilate mankind the second the concentration of power in the hands of
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