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Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them; but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.
H P Lovecraft - The Tomb
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'Intellects of the first rank are always concerned with fashioning and interpreting themselves and their surroundings as free, nature-wild, arbitrary, fantastic, confusing and suprising..'
-Nietzsche-
ODC/Dance demonstrates their athleticism, passion and intellect on stage at Patravadi Theater in Bangkok, Thailand..
Well, emperor Kova, strong personality, but intellect.... ha. And what about new developments? Afraid of change! That's the description that suits the emperor best. But beware when you've reported about new land. Kova will confiscate it, and the cat who risked it's live is forgotten. All you can get is a tongue over your head, and a smash on your nose to remind you of your position. But you stay loyal, you stay loyal for the sake of the happiness of your owners.
IS LITERATURE A SCIENCE?
-Seshendra Sharma
Visionary Poet of the Millennium
"Can literature be treated slightingly? My friend relegated literature to the position of a pass time and considered it with no more value. This was done by him in contrast to the great material sciences which alone are held by him in high esteem as products of intellect and objects worthy of man's pursuit. I have to think that this mistake arises out of an erroneous attitude towards literature or failure to have come across correct and ideal forms of literature or not having sufficiently exercised his mind in the matter of proper appreciation of its purposes and functions. Looked at from the correct perspective, literature has a high place in the general scheme of human knowledge. It can only be ranked with the great sciences, because - All the various sciences explain so many species of living and non-living matter or so many stages of evolution as for instance, inorganic matter is explained by inorganic chemistry, plants explained by botany, Animals by biology and finally man by physiology and so on and so forth. After creation reached the stage of man, a new chapter has opened and an unprecedented course takes in the line of creation. That is, as seen never before in nature, man began to change the environment to suit his life unlike his preceding species which changed themselves to suit the changing environment and life. so after the augury of the new chapter, the latest species, namely man, undergoing physical change by any environmental change, and thereby perpetuate the line of evolution in such terms, was elated once for all. However it is difficult to say as to how long this history of man will continue without evolution of a new and more advanced species of life higher than man from the physical point of view. Nevertheless it is now possible to presage on the available data of historical, archeological and scientific material that man's evolution, or to be more correct, the furtherance of evolution of creation is not hereafter going to be towards the formation of new physical forms but it could be only towards the attainment of new intellectual and spiritual heights. But what does this new stage of evolution consist of? In fact we are 218 ™êÇ≤Ï`«º^Œi≈x now witnessing, the ever expanding horizons of mind and its immense potentialities. In the wake of this development pursuit of human knowledge has finally culminated in the endeavour to understand the inscrutable and mysterious behaviour and phenomenon of human mind. To unravel the tangled fabric of mental process, its reactions, its effects, its vagaries etc., and to delve deep into the dark recesses of its abysmal bowels and cull out its treasured secrets, has become the final and the most interesting enterprise of man. In the wake of this glorious enterprise arose the phantoms of psychology, occult sciences, yoga, philosophy, literature and ever so many activities of superb inexactitude. Literature seeks to explain the emotional and the intellectual stage of the evolving man. For a more precise expression, I should say it endeavours to explain the latest stage of man's evolution or creation's evolution, for that matter. The extent of knowledge so far mankind acquired, of the internal and the external universes, only indicates the history of our mind and its evolution But literature particularly that form of it, dealing with the intricate fibres of human feelings and sentiments, explains to us, of what the mind has come to be, that is, its ways, its capacities and caprices. The role has not been played by any science or any branch or form of human pursuit except literature. My friend, of course rises the contention that psychology is exactly the department of knowledge which fulfils this purpose; but I feel it is only as much as to say that organic chemistry reveals the secret of sugar's taste. The said science, at best, can only explain the composition and the texture of the chemical compound Sugar, but by no means it can pretend to explain its effect on human tongue, Similarly psychology can evolve certain principles and indicate by certain symbols, the broad outlines of the forces at work behind the mental processes, as for instance, the principles underlying its behaviour in the case of the 'Oedipus' complex. So this aspect of mind is best explained only by literature and never adequately by psychology because this part of human personality or being can never be clearly grappled by a system of knowledge which tends to postulate and reduce itself into mere symbols and principles which are called science. This aspect of our being is so vague, so deep, so inlaid in the darkest regions of mind that our very language fails very âı¿+O„^Œ 219 often to hold it in its grip. How then, can a narrow symbolical and inflexible system achieve the purpose? It needs a very comprehensive and flexible method to hold the entire range of this very illusive and exclusive subject in an extensive and grand sweep; and that is done by literature alone. Psychology is not even its poor substitute because its purpose can be seen to be different by a subtle anatomy of the science. If psychology is the dynamics of mind, we can say literature is its science of properties of matter. That appears to be broadly speaking, their relationship to each other. Yet another comparison may be given, If psychology is the grammer of mind literature is its prosody. Finally I would even go to the extent of saying, that the place of literature cannot be taken by any science-form to achieve the same purpose. The system, with which you have to understand this particular aspect of man's mind has got to be only an artform. Thus literature may be said to be performing the role of science though not in its exact garb. So literature demands to be elevated to a revered and indispensible position in the grand gallery of human knowledge.
The Deccan Chronicle
English Daily : Hyderabad
Monday September 8, 1969
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Visionary Poet of the Millennium
An Indian poet Prophet
Seshendra Sharma
October 20th, 1927 - May 30th, 2007
Visionary Poet of the Millennium
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Rivers and poets
Are veins and arteries
Of a country.
Rivers flow like poems
For animals, for birds
And for human beings-
The dreams that rivers dream
Bear fruit in the fields
The dreams that poets dream
Bear fruit in the people-
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The sunshine of my thought fell on the word
And its long shadow fell upon the century
Sun was playing with the early morning flowers
Time was frightened at the sight of the martyr-
- Seshendra Sharma
"We are children of a century which has seen revolutions, awakenment of large masses of people over the earth and their emancipation from slavery and colonialism wresting equality from the hands of brute forces and forging links of brotherhood across mankind.
This century has seen peaks of human knowledge; unprecedented intercourse of peoples and
perhaps for the first time saw the world stand on the brink of the dilemma of one world or destruction.
It is a very inspiring century, its achievements are unique.
A poet who is not conscious of this context fails in his existence as poet."
-Seshendra Sharma
(From his introduction to his “Poet’s notebook "THE ARC OF BLOOD" )
Lord Ganpati is the chief deity of all the deities representing wisdom and intellect. There is not a single place where his intellect does not shine. That is exactly why he is placed first and foremost amongst all deities. Even in rituals of prayer worship, Lord Ganpati is placed first.
By worshipping him, the intellect becomes humble and free from illusion. If a person encounters a few difficulties in a month but constantly lives in fear everyday, it is the result of deluded intellect. That is why Lord Ganpati is always placed first in any worship, so that the intellect does not become deluded and remains free from delusion.
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Title: Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children-in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, with eight illustrative drawings
Creator: Walker, Alexander
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston
Sponsor: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Contributor: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Date: 1866
Language: eng
Description: Concepts of heredity played a powerful role in structuring 19th-century debates over disease, sexuality, morality, class, race, intellect, gender, and evolution. Walker is also the author of Beauty: Illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women (1836) and Women physiologically considered as to minds, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity, and divorce (1839)
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Title: Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children-in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, with eight illustrative drawings
Creator: Walker, Alexander
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston
Sponsor: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Contributor: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Date: 1866
Language: eng
Description: Concepts of heredity played a powerful role in structuring 19th-century debates over disease, sexuality, morality, class, race, intellect, gender, and evolution. Walker is also the author of Beauty: Illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women (1836) and Women physiologically considered as to minds, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity, and divorce (1839)
Electronic reproduction
Gift to The Abner Wellborn Calhoun Medical Library presented by Dr. F.P. Calhoun, September 11, 1942
HEALTH: Added as part of 2008 Rare Book Project
digitized
The online edition of this book in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Publications Program
If you have questions concerning reproductions, please contact the Contributing Library.
Note: The colors, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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