Starting with an examination of historica) roots and modern developments on which the present habit of political theorizing finds ground ior concentration, the author argues that historical) experiments have gone to the making of the modern state, although in its latest form it seems to reject history out of the clusion that a new hope can be found in an instrument devised by new men. The reader is asked:
... Have those who seriously indulge in these speculations abandoned all belief in the possibility of a good human life for the generality of mankind and therefore turned to the conception of an animal existence for all? But why, we may ask, goon With the struggle to create a better World for man? Is mass-man more Worthy of this than the ant-hill he is to emulate? Surely there are nobler animal species than the ant, and it Would be better as Swift ironically hints that man should retire, and leave to them ihe chief place in the sun, Each for All Ixia IN 1994-35 A statement prepared for presentation to Parliament in accordance with: he requirements of ihe 26th Section of the Government of India Act (5 and 6 Geo. V, Chap.
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The Bureau of Public Information of the Government of India must be rather tired of being told that its annual report—excellent as it is—suffers terribly from being produced so long after the fair. As in the old days the answer used to be that delay in getting information from the Provinces was the main factor in retarding publication, it might be suggested that now the chapter on the Provinces is left out a prompter issue of what is known as the Moral and Material Progress Report might be considered. It is a little hard on a reviewer to expect him to wax enthusiastic on an official survey of India as she looked in 1934 even though the chapter on politics and administration relates to the whole of the calendar year 1935, Nevertheless, the information given is impeccably accurate and to the thoughtful student of affairs provides much material for reflection, Indeed, those who have to consider problems further east than India will be helped by the official account of various activities intended to advance the economic progress of a country which is predominantly agricultural So the chapter which appropriately deals with agriculture and industry has valuable inspiration for China. In particular the development of agricultural education, the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, and the veterinary activities under the auspices of the Government of India, deserve notice. Irrigation, too, is always an important factor in the economic plans of the Government of India, and every year there is a record of a new area to which the blessings of a regular water supply have been brought.
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