ABSTRACT

Somewhere in his voluminous writings, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great American Prose-writer and Poet, has said that Thinking is the most difficult thing in life, or words to that effect. People often confuse memory and recollection with the whole of that mental operation which produces thought. The capacity for, or the exercise of the very highest intellectual function a is not characteristic of the man in the street, nor indeed of the average mall of intelligence the wide world over. Western education or civilization undiluted, unsifted, has more or less enervated our minds. People cannot apprehend and intelligently grasp the things that make for regeneration unless they think for themselves independently, naturally, fearlessly and even aggressively.