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ally doing so today, and in a worse form, though un-aware of the fact. There can be no valid objection or the ground of religion either. Several of the Biblical patriarchs had more wives than one. We have no right to expect peaceful nationalism while millions of women are forced to kad un?appy lives the day of reckoning is not far olf. Girls have already begun to usurp the the places of men in business circles. Let us note that the proper place for the woman is the home and the nursery-not the business-house. It is for man to earn; not for the woman. She is to spend profitably for man, and for herself too, as his partner in life, what be bas earned by labour or skil!. You cannot reverse the natural role for long, without very gruve consequences resulting from a disregard of Nature's Law
5. Finally, in our international relations, the practising of the doctrine of Universal Love will at once make men, and natlons respected, and loved. To-day, the K:y-note of Interna. tional Policy is fear; we hate every one, and are hated by every nne in our turn Peace is maintained only through fear of each Other's brute force There is not freedom even for the nations that are free, who are and have to rem in armed to the teeth. True freedom consists in being free from fear altogether. If we aspire to enjoy true National Freedom for ourselves, we must first set our neighbours free from fear of ourselves. The mea. Bure of our in reality, is the measure of the freedom of our neighbours near, and remote.
Abimsā is Universal Love and will a:tain this high ideal however much it may be beyond the conception of men to-day.
Love; and you are sure to be loved there is cnly one condition- let your love proceed from the heart but riot from the tongue.
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