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false or transitory, and the nation was in danger or place in the structure of society and the Satya Yuga losing its soul by an insensate surrender to the aberra- return. This is the Asiatic reading of Democracy, which tions of European materialism. Not in this spirit was India must re-discover for herself before she can give India intended to receive the inighty oppertunity which it to the world. It is the Dharma of every man to be the impact of Europe gave to her. When the danger was free in soul, bound to service not by compulsion but greatest, a number of great spirits were sent to stem hy Love; to be equal in spirit. apportioned his place in the ride flowing in from the West and recall her society by his capacity to serve society, not by interested mission; for, if she had gone astray, the world would selfishness of others; to be in harmonious relations with have gone astray with her. Her mission is to point back his brother men, linked to them by mutual love and humanity to the true souice of human liberty, human service, not by shackles of servitude, or the relations of equality, human brotherhood. When man is free in the exploiter and the exploited, the eater and the eaten. spirit, all other freedom is at his command; for the It has been said that Democracy is based on the rights Free is the Lord who cannot be bound. When he is of man; it has been replied that it should rather take 1. berated from delusion, he perceives the divine equality its stand on the duties of man; but both rights and of the world which fulfils itself through love and duties are European ideas. Dharma is the Indian conjustice, and this perception transfuses itself into the law ception in which rights and duties lose the artificial of government and society, when he has perceived this antogonism created by a view of the world which divine equaility, he is brother to the whole world, and makes selfishness the rool of action, and regain their in whatever position he is placed he serves all men as deep and eternal unity. Dharma is the basic of Demohis brothers by the law of love, by the law of justice. cracy which Asia must recognize, for in this lies the When this perception becomes the basis of religion, of distinction between the soul of Asia and the soul of philosophy, of social speculation and political aspiration, Europe. Through Dharma the Asiatic evolution fulfils then will liberty, equality and fraternity take their itself: this is her secret.
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