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dravya " in relation to the European spirit of selfish appropriation, The Indian accommodating spirit is opposed to the self-centred polioy of the Europeans and so far as this Para-dravya is concerned, the European policy in the U. N.O. consisting in the attempt to advanoe one's oountry's national interest at any cost, inay be said to be non-existent. The present European policy based on a spirit of safe-guarding the national interest is admittedly a reality; but the above negative aspect of this policy, its negation and non-existence from the view-point of the non-violent principle is also a reality; for, there are evidences to show that the European members of the. U. N. O have begun already to modify to some extent their ultra-selfish policy and considor seriously the implications of non-violence.
Thus the negative view-point, as embodied in the second mode of predication under consi. deration is always real and useful in its own way. It is, no doubt, complementary to the positive view of it but is not thereby identical with it. The negative view does not contradict the positive view as the contents of time, place, mood and constitutive substance in the two view-points are different. In taking a negative view of an objeot, we come across new aspects, new implications
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