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THE IDEAL OF THE KARMAYOGIN
society. Not individual selfishness and mutually consuming struggle but love and the binding of individuals into a single inseparable life is the national impulse. It sought to fulfil itself in the past by the bond of blood in the joint family, by the bond of a partial communism in the village system, by the bond of birth and a corporate sense of honour in the caste. It may seek a more perfect and spiritual bond in the future. In commerce also so long as we follow the European spirit and European model, the individual competitive selfishness, the bond of mere interest in the joint-stock company or that worst and most dangerous development of cooperative Capitalism, the giant Octopuslike Trust and Syndicate, we shall never succeed in rebuilding a healthy industrial life. It is not these bonds which can wield Indians together. India moves to a deeper and greater life than the world has yet imagined possible and it is when she has found the secret of expressing herself
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