AUTHORS NOTE
All the essays included in this volume were written during the war years (1940-1945). Some of them dealt with situations directly arising out of the war and so they carry certain points of emphasis which are no longer valid, at least to the same extent, under changed circumstances of today. Still they are of interest and may help in some way to formulate one's ideas regarding the future and are therefore reprinted. These are mostly editorial notes and comments contributed to the Advent
Acknowledgement is due to All-India Radio, Delhi, from where the first essay, in an abridged form was broadcast on December 4, 1942. 'New World-Conditions' was published in the Hindusthan Quarterly Calcutta. (1945 ), .'The Basis of Unity' in the Prabuddha Bharata (1943, May), the papers 'On Social Reconstruction' in the Sri Aurobindo Circle Annual, Bombay, (1945), and 'The Three Degrees of SociaI Organisation; in the Aryan Path (1943, August)