Human perfection is a sort of marriage between high thought and just action. This must form man's aim according to the "Gita". - Peter de Noronha

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Human perfection is a sort of marriage between high thought and just action. This must form man's aim according to the "Gita".

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About Peter de Noronha

Peter de Noronha (19 April 1897 – 24 July 1970) was a prominent citizen of Kanpur, India. He was knighted by Pope Paul VI in 1965.

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Look up and below and all round and see the wonderful creations of God, not only our earth but the whole host of celestial worlds, planets, constellations etc. – many still unknown to us. See with what minute precision and order they move and are regulated. Only God could have created them. Ev all the accumulated genius of Mankind from the time of Creation through eons and eons of time and even to the end of existence, were all pooled together, yet it would not be able to evolve even a fraction of this order. God only could do so, and without him it would be utter chaos.

This vocation is sometimes termed a harried one and it is said that the abuse of School-masters was scribbled on the Pyramids long before the Monument was complete and that the general hatred and contempt for the pedagogue dates back to the very beginning of recorded things. These and other similar foolish accusations are the additional burden this class of people have to bear. Consider the gibe of that arch-cynic G.B.S., "When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else, who has no aptitude for it and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman."

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