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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 443, 27 February 1909, Page 12

t i,„¥ r i- R - C; Pradham, in an article in the .Modern .Roview," . states:—"Materialism ;. maydenyit and agnosticism may question it: but, to the too of the spiritual insight, there is no doubt, whatever that human events,are in the final analysis, shaped by Divine forces' and it is in fact one of these Divine forces whose. advent and operation we perceive in the .resurgence .of India and other Asiatic lands that is going on at present. The ivorld goes on the principle of justice, and.it' cannot be that India or, for. that matter, any other country is destined to remain for ever sunk ,in tho miro of .Bubjoction. : India's close connection with-England, and through her with.Western life and thought, however brought about in the first instance, can have no other moaning; than this—Viz. to olevate liidia to the status' of-a free -'progressive nation, fully worthy to take her proper place in the comity of nations, and thus to make her a proper channel for the interchango and interaction: of tho " two mighty ourrents of civilisation—-Eastern and «estorn. .To read any other meaning into British rule in India is practically to deny Divine; existence, and to posit a materialistic, nor.-nioral view of life. Tho Indian movement for freedom, for a full,-, worthy .national -life', is thus a Divine movement, and the might of tho mightiest Power in tho world will have to. confess itself impotent to destroy, it by any measures of repression. It is as if puny man wcro to wage war with God and dare tjrexpect victory against'the 'All-powerful. What can bo more futile and unwisethan this F"

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