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country but also in far off lands. An humble attempt has been made in the following pages to place the man and his mind before the public,
I must here gratefully admit that this attempt to collect the speeches and writings of Mr. Gandhi is due to the intelligent suggestion and spontaneous generosity of my friend Shet Jivanchand Dharamchand Javeri of Bombay, but for whose encouraging help such an attempt on my part would have been impossible. And it is with the greatest pleasure that I here admit that not only myself but the whole Jain community ought to be grateful to this inunificent Bombay merchant.
As for the plan of the book I have divided it into two parts. The present volume contains almost everything that Mr. Gandhi had to say about Jainism. There is no publication at present extant which can help laymen to study and intelligently understand Jain religion and philosophy. I sincerely hope the present volume will serve as a hand-book for this purpose to our rising young generation. The second volume will contain the speeches and writings of Mr. Gandhi on the Yoga philosophy from the Jain point of view.
I have tried my best to collect as many of the speeches and writings of Mr. Gandhi as I could get access to and have succeeded in getting together a valuable collection. But it is posible thet there are many others which my industry has not been able to discover. If
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