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હજી પણ જૈન નામને વાડીલાલ કેમ વળગી રહ્યો છે? ૮૮
spirits, who desire almost the opposite of what our intentions and instincts prompt-not to mention that in respect to the new philosophers who are appearing, they must still more be closed windows and bolted doors. Briefly and regrettably, they belong to the lavellers, these wrongly named « free spirits "-as glibtongued and scribe-fingered slaves of the democratic taste and its “ modern ideas": all of them men without solitude, without personai solitude, blunt honest fellows to whom neither courage nor honourable conduct ought to be denied; only, they are not free, and are ludicrously superficial, especially in their innate partiality for seeing the cause of almost all human misery and failure in the old forms in which society has hitherto existed-a notion which happily inverts the truth entirely! What they would fain attain with all their strength is the universal. green-meadow happiness of the herd, together with security, safety, comfort and alleviation of life for every one; their two most frequently chanted songs and doctrines are called “ Equality of Rights” and “ Sympathy with all Sufferers ”-and suffering itself is looked upon by them as something which must be done away with.
We opposite ones, however, who have opened our eye and conseionce to the question how and where the plant man' has hitherto grown most vigorously, believe that this has always taken place under the opposite condi
