Dr. Urquhart's The Vedanta and Modern Thought (Oxford University Press,
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the increasing attention which is being given to ancient Eastern philosophies. " India," he writes, has a most MI- portant contribution to make to the thought of the world, and is well qualified to make it by the intensity with which through- out the centuries she has devoted herself to her philosophical task." Mr. Urquhart has an important chapter comparing the Vedanta with modern philosophy. We would not recom- mend the greater part of the volume, however, to anyone unversed in the doctrines of maya and avidya, or in the teachings of Sankara and Ramanuja, but the last chapter, " The Religious Value of the Vedanta and some conclusions " —contains a review of the spirit of India readily in- telligible to all. " In her very denials, in the very intensity of, her ascetic abnegation, she has expressed something of the deepest need of the human soul, that sense of loneliness and Mysteity, and helplessness over against the immensity of the-Nniverse, which are a preparation for the overwhelming Presence of God."
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