Sri Aurobindo

Bande Mataram

Political Writings and Speeches. 1890–1908

Part Seven. Writings from Manuscripts (1907 – 1908)

A Fragment

Mankind¹ is of a less terrestrial mould than some would have him to be. He has an element of the divine which the practical politician² ignores. The practical politician looks to the position at the moment and imagines that he has taken everything into consideration. He has indeed studied the surface and the immediate surroundings, but he has missed what lies beyond material vision. He has left out of account the divine, the incalculable in man, that element which upsets the calculations of the schemer and disconcerts the wisdom of the diplomat.

Earlier edition of this work: Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in  30  volumes.- Volume 1.- Bande Mataram: Early Political Writings. 1890 - May 1908.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1973.- 920 p.

¹ 1973 ed. SABCL, vol.1: Man

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² 1973 ed. SABCL, vol.1: the politician

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