Word: india
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ELLIOTT and S. W. PHILLIPS.Best general references: Statement of Maj. Powell, House Ex. Doc. 51st Cong. 2nd Sess. (1890-91) No. 15; H. M. Wilson, Irrigation in India, House Ex. Doc. 52nd Cong. 1st Sess. (1891-92) No. 18; J. W. Irwin, A great Domain by Irrigation in Forum XII, 740 (Sept. 1891); Reports of Secs. of the Interior, House Ex. Docs. 51st Cong. 1st Sess. (1889-90) No. 13, and 51st Cong. 2nd Sess...
...country. - (a) Large areas now worthless without it: Powell, 48. - (b) 120,000,000 acres reclaimable: Sec. Noble's Report 1891. - (c) Government no longer has any good agricultural land left. - (d) Irrigated land better for agriculture than common land. - (e) Irrigation has developed the country immensely. - (x) in India: Wilson 418-20. - (y) in Southern California and in New Mexico: Sec. Noble's Report...
...fundamental doctrine of the Bramanical Theosophy, he said, was that of the "Atman," or self. The importance of self was universally recognized throughout India, and its position in a future life was a subject of constant discussion among Brahman teachers. The self was the inner consciousness of a man, - it was the heart without passion or vice. It was not this inner consciousness alone, however, which made the ideal of self, though this perhaps was the most important element. It was the whole being of a man, body, thought, sensations, - a combination of all the elements which made the individual...
Lecture. History of Ideas of a Future Life. VI., India: (2) Brahmanism and Buddhism. Professor J. Estlin Carpenter. Divinity Chapel...
Lecture. History of Ideas of a Future Life. V., India: (1) The Moral Order: Transmigration. Professor J. Estlin Carpenter. Divinity Chapel...