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THE VALIDITY OF NON-VIOLENCE IN NATURE
Nature is such that there is enough, either actually or potentially, of the things all men need for life, for example, sufficient water to drink, earth from which man can grow enough to eat through his labour and enough natural resources to shelter mankind. A level well beyond subsistence even is the possible and natural condition of mankind. If people do not reach it, it is not nature's but man's fault. The needs men have can be met; the ends men seek can be reached in so far as nature herself is concerned. From the said beneficence of nature, it follows that the very goodness of nature makes the attitude of conquering it a ridiculous one. We do not need to conquer, all we need to do, is to work with nature.
Since, there is enough to go around, competing with each other, living at other's expense, or using violence to get that we need is not necessary. Nothing in nature compels us to do so. Men use violence when they desire more than they need, when they demand for themselves an excessive portion of nature's bounty. In using violence to attain such ends, men act contrary to nature. As the German philosopher Imman
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