The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-24
Addresses Fashionable Aud
ience in New York, Preach
ing Doctrine Familiar to
These Who Have Read
His Books.

Tagore whom the readers Of his
books know who talked OF 1.-THE
World of Personality this morning
to the League for Political Education
In the Hudson theatre-a Tagore who
taIaed at the world which is to each
OF US q. relative thing dependent upon
eur own personalities: and of this re-
lation-which reveals the win. the
Supreme Personality. as : the only
changeless thing in the universe
The talk, given by tho Indian poet
and mystic in his odd, high voice,
which becomes music In the places
where the prose becomes poetry,
might have been q chapter aron nia
-s.Sadhana, the Realixation of Life, y
for 1t was filled with the doctrine
that 10Y Is the highest good. since
realisation Is joy: and that only out
OF the abundance of this joy can our
works flow with our lives and be of
value. This central personality. only
In relation to watch the world is a
world. Is what the scientist decries
and what the poet recognizes insdnc-
lively. Never by analysis but only
By enjoyment OF It AZ q whole can
one come to = realization Of the
wOrld-
In eruuisatefy beautiful language
Tegure told his listeners these things
which are 50 much = part Of him. and
which they have come to know In
every book OF prose or poetry which
he has written. -
Much could be written OF the pic
ture made by this second lecture of
Thgore's in this city 'Tagore and
the Clnbtpomen'' would be that story's
name. for the membership Of the
League for Political Education is
made up almost exclusively OF wom-
en- Enough to say that when the
theatre was we'll filled with smart
hats and snrnptuous furs and the Gus
tomary, well contented settling into
familiar seats of women who go to
lectures there thre or four mornings
In the week. Tagore came out onto
tho stage
How Tagore Came
SIR Rabindranath moves rather
than walks, very silently and looking
starighf before him. He did not
know Just who this audience was, just
what 1t meant or wanted to Lear. 1T
he bowed in his simple. friendly way
as he carno, dressed in his long, Gin
narnon-colored robe. his hands rails
ed and pressed together as If In
prayer, which is his gesturel OF sa1u-
tAti0n and appreciation Then he be-
gan TO speak And the stirring and
settling down Of the audience stopped
entirely an he, spoke, looking FAR out
over tho furs and the hats. Of the in
finite and the finite and tho relation
-co,.cnaaa 'vhsch make mn STARS and
iron .nd rtculI. Int for which we care
rcthlrp IN reaHzinr the wholes of
,w3,,ch thew are .. mari. His own talk
v.a -, etxar, sDle of what he was say
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dnclux MI. raeore TO Carnegie Hall.
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ne 9ASo. a. an eA1l.ipio u Inc t"o
Qcin o1 view ol tAe scienlst ano
the pOeL winch Always must De re-
conciied. q STAR which seems station
airy to us and which the scientist
Knows h moving science taxes the
near view, the inqulsitve view;
poetry takes the Tar view, the reia-
tive view
Kind Nature. he said, has held
before the eyes OF US children OF
earth the smoked glass or night and
OF distance that we may see the stars
a. stfn. but in their perfect relation
to each other
And this Is all that is important,