This is a selection of Professor R. K. Dasgupta's papers and speeches on philosophy and philosophers �ranging from Dante Alighieri to Swami Vivekananda. A profound scholar with a versatile mind, the professor is well-versed as much in philosophy as in literature, and the reader is sure to benefit by his lucid exposition of abstruse topics.
If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man's head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.
-Swami Vivekananda