...and West has produced its inevitable result. Matthew Arnold's hackneyed lines — The East bowed down before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again — are completely out of date. To plunge in thought is the last thing that the modern Hindu dreams...

...is West, And never the twain shall meet. . . ." and there is another which runs : " The East bowed low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain, She let the legions thunder past, And turned to thought again." What do these popular verses convey to you ? Is our difference as striking,...

...the main constitutive principle of the mature ideological form of nationalist thought in India. II 'The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again.' In The Discovery of India, Nehru quotes Matthew Arnold, and immediately proceeds to contradict him:...

...society, religion, education, art or industry was any impression of Macedonion aggression. "The East bowed low before the blast. In patient deep disdain; She...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again." Some indirect results, however, followed. Alexander's invasion exposed the weakness of disunion among...

...imperialism on them on the one hand and that of industrialization on the other. To quote Mathew Arnold: The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep...let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again.15 Several efforts were made to bring the peoples of the East and the West to a common spiritual...

...frame of mind is fitly represented by Matthew Arnold's fine lines : — The East bowed low beforethe blast In patient deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. The mind of the true Eastern is at once lethargic and suspicious ; he does not want to be reformed,...

...Britannica is a useful summary. CHAPTER VIII THE EFFECTS OF THE GREEK OCCUPATION ON INDIA " The East bowed low before the blast In patient, deep disdain ; She...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again." AND so, less than three centuries after the Macedonian legionaries first struck terror into the Aryans...

...incessant activity of the West is aptly summed up in the well-known lines of the poet The East bowed low before the blast. In patient, deep disdain, She...legions thunder past And plunged in thought again It could not be expected that, with such a bent of mind of the people, there should have been much...

...been hurt by the invasion "would eventually come to see the English were right" and quoted a poem: The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, TIBET: A LAND OF RELIGION Tibet's association with religion can be traced back to the early modern...