এই পাতাটির মুদ্রণ সংশোধন করা হয়েছে, কিন্তু বৈধকরণ করা হয়নি।
পারস্য-যাত্রী
of them. The East and the West, roughly speaking, present before us today a spectacle of these two extreme conditions. Europe by concentrating on material achievement has exploited nature and man at the expense of her soul. She has evolved a unity of civilization because of the urge of a common purpose which has permeated her continental life. But that is not enough—the results are too evident to need explanation. Asia still retains the vision of a synthetic cultural life where the good is the good of our whole nature, of all the peoples;—but as you have made evident to us now, failing to establish her ideals on the basis of a united, a continental civilization, she has become ineffective.
Sir, you have raised the banner of Asia’s self-expression, your ideas of education are a new revelation to the modernage. We are proud that through you our continent offers to all humanity the promise of a new path which will lead us out of the debris of the present, out of all the delusions and oppressions which insult our human nature and bring us into mutual conflict. You can be assured that we shall never forget your message, that our renascent nation will strive its utmost to put your ideas into effective operation.Poet: I thank you for your sympathy and your faith which strengthen my hopes for the future. Our institution in Bengal depends on your cooperation for its success. We must keep in touch with each other and be guided by the experiences we both gain in our efforts to train the minds of the young towards a fellowship of culture which will bring humanity together in love and understanding.
—cf New Asia (1947), pp 1-5
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