Frasi di Keshab Chandra Sen

Keshab Chandra Sen è stato un filosofo indiano.

Fu a capo della Società di Dio di Ram Mohan Roy, ma durante la sua direzione ebbe luogo uno scisma interno. Sen decise di fondare una nuova società ispirata da Dio e dal Cristianesimo, ma la morte prematura lo fece scomparire dalla scena.

Fu iniziato in Massoneria nel 1863, nella Loggia Anchor and Hope di Calcutta. Nel luglio 1870 tenne un celebre discorso per la fondazione di una associazione teistica in Inghilterra alla Freemasons’ Hall di Londra. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Novembre 1838 – 8. Gennaio 1884
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Keshab Chandra Sen: Frasi in inglese

“In carrying out the work of female education great impediments, some of them of an almost insuperable character, had to be overcome, and many defects had to be rectified.”

Speech delivered at the East India Association, London, on 13th May 1870. See Female Education in India for full speech.

“Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.”

Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London on 24th May 1870. See Education in India for major portion of the speech.

“Her (India’s) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.”

Speech at Hannover Square Rooms on the occasion of a Soiree held to welcome him on 12th April 1870.

“Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all.”

Quoted by Charu Chandra Banerjee in a speech at Dhaka Purva Bangla Brahmo Samaj. Published in the Prabashi, Pous 1340 (1933). Reprinted in Brahmananda Keshub Chunder Sen “Testimonies in Memoriam”. Compiled by G.C.Banerji, Allahabad , 1934

“I was also pained to notice an institution which I certainly did not expect to find in this country – I mean caste.”

Your rich people are really Brahmins, and your poor people are Sudras.
Speech at Hannover Square Rooms on the occasion of a Soiree held to bid him farewell on 12th September 1870.

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