“He was, in the early twentieth century, the country's most eminent biographer and literary scholar.”

Subtitle of his book ...And the truth shall set you free

In [age=11
THE PREMCHAND READER Selected Stories 1

Source: Articles, Come September (29 Sep 2002)

"Writing", p. 17
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)

The Dimbleby Lecture 2000

Lama Surya Das, Awakening the Buddha Within, Broadway Books, NY, 1997.

"Simone Weil" in The Nation (12 January 1957) http://www.cddc.vt.edu/bps/rexroth/essays/simone-weil.htm
Context: Simone Weil was one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth, or indeed of any other century. I have great sympathy for her, but sympathy is not necessarily congeniality. It would be easier to write of her if I liked what she had to say, which I strongly do not. …I think Simone Weil had both over- and under-equipped herself for the crisis which overwhelmed her — along, we forget, immersed in her tragedy, with all the rest of us. She was almost the perfectly typical passionate, revolutionary, intellectual woman — a frailer, even more highly strung Rosa Luxemburg. … She made up her own revolution out of her vitals, like a spider or silkworm. She could introject all the ill of the world into her own heart, but she could not project herself in sympathy to others. Her letters read like the more distraught signals of John of the Cross in the dark night.

The World Set Free (1914)
Context: Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.