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will save the world from the fear of distress and war. Nonviolence, as Gandhiji said, is not meant only for saints. It is meant for the common people as well.
Romain Rolland said that the Rșis who discovered the law of non-violence in the midst of violence were greater geniuses than Newton, greater warriors than Wellington. He said, with Gandhiji, that non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. '18 Non-violence would be a panacea for the ills of life. It would bring lasting peace on earth.
118. Mahatma Gandhi by Romain Rolland, p. 48.
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