পাতা:চিঠিপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড)-রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর.pdf/৪৮৩

great burden of heterogeneity, patiently working all the time to evolve out of these warring contradictions a great synthesis. ... For us, there can be no question of blind revolution, but of steady and purposeful education. If to break up the feudal system and the tyrannical conventionalism of the Latin Church which had outraged the healthier instincts of humanity, Europe had needed the thought-impetus of the Renaissance and the fierce struggle of the Reformation, do we not in a greater degree need an over whelming influx of higher social ideals before a place can be found for true political thinking 2 Must we not have the greater vision of humanity which will impel us to shake off the fetters that shackle our individual life before we begin to dream of national freedom ? We have begun to be dimly conscious of the value of the time we have allowed to slip by, of the weight of the clogging effete matter which we have allowed to accumulate, and are angry with ourselves. We have also begun to vaguely realize the failure of England to rise to the great occasion, and to miss more and more the invaluable co-operation which it was so clearly England's mission to offer.’ ‘চারুকে ... পাঠাইয়াছি । প্রবাসীর সহ-সম্পাদক চারুচন্দ্র বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের কাছে প্রেরিত এই তিনটি কবিতা ‘প্রণতি’ ( যেথায় থাকে সবার অধম ), 'সাধন ( ভজন পূজন সাধন আরাধনা ), এবং ‘রাজবেশ ( রাজার মত বেশে ) । প্রবাসী, 8é ३