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THE IDEAL OF THE KARMAYOGIN
anyone to fear, in robbing us of knowledge, but the might of our own minds? Who is it that will sacrifice and labour and build and struggle till we have grasped and mastered our intellectual heritage ? Ourselves. Ourselves. Always ourselves. Because we know and with all our might will demonstrate the truth that knowledge is more precious than rubies, we cannot be effectively deprived of it. At whatever sacrifice, we shall insist upon it. We shall give our very lives for it. We must have knowledge at all costs. We must be educated men. As a nation, we must lead the culture of the world. In day when that culture was classical, literary, and psychological or mathematical, we led it. Now that it is scientific, with side issues in mechanical application, we must again lead it. We shall never be content with even a second place in these things. The whole history of the world shows that the Indian intellect is second to none. This must be proved by the perfor
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