________________ The Cardinal Tenets of Mahavira and Jainism : 127 again implicit faith, though I cannot logically justify it, that the catastrophe of the third world-war will be averted, and poverty in any shape, physical, intellectual and moral, will pass away like a mist before the sun. In conclusion, I appeal to you to permit me to combine my homage with yours to the spirit which embodied itself in Mahavira, the great prophet whom we are commemorating by this function.
