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<H3>AUTHORS NOTE </H3>
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<p class="para"> 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emphasis which are no longer valid, at least to the same extent, under changed 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 <i>Advent </i>
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<p class="para"> 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 <i>
Hindusthan Quarterly </i>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)</p>	
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