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[The Chanda-Kaushika Gets A Blessed Life petrate the said crime. Was his intention really bad, or was he compelled by the circumstances to act in a certain way? The next thing that we are to do is to put ourselves in the same position in wnich the antagnoists was, and than think how we would have acted under similar circumstances. If, after investigation we find that the intention of the man was not bad, but that the cirumstances alone were responsible for the fault that he committed we have no right to be angry with him.
And if it is proved that our antagonist tried to harm us knowingly, it means that he is ignorant; and an ignorant man is no better than one out of senses. Such a man is really pardonable. We should not be angry with him, and if we are, we shall cause not only our own ruin but the ruin of the whole world. We form one of the links of the body of the world; and if one limb is poisoned, others must get affected thereby, and the result would be that the whole body is poisoned and corrupted at last. Taking into consideration the good of ourselves, of our antagonist and of the whole world, it is desirable to pardon him who has tried to harm us. If the human society accept this principle and act according to it, and if people pause to think in this manner before taking resort to anger or revenge, many of the evils of this world would be washed away from existence. There would be no necessity of holding and playing with any International Peace Conferences or of passing bogus proposals on World Disarmament; that science which is the root cause of all man-slaughter, blood-shed, and trouble shall itself lose its force. In the last and present Great European War it was the increasing power of such science which was mainly
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