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certain extent they seemed to have realized before they were discovered and disturbed by the 'outer barbarians,' had to be surrendered. It was not to be. The whole world was to be a fighting and a buckstering world, and even the solution of the highest problems of religion and philosophy was in future to be determined, not by sweet reasonableness, but by the biggest battalions. We fuust all learn that lesson, but even to the hardened historian it is a sad lesson to learn."
Such has been the case of the people of India from earliest times. Our physical resistance in every instance has been spa sinodic under the goadings of injustice, for the reason that in our philosophy and religion there is no curriculum nor science of war, only the holy breathings of lessons and principles that make for peace and brotherhood. Cruelty and reprisals have been charged upon us, which charge we do not fully deuy, since the worm will turn under the remorseless tread of the ruthless invader; but even in the paroxysin of such madness, overborne by greater cower and cruelty and in the agonies of undeserved death and extermination, we still clung to the prayer of our holy faith, "We forgive all living beings. We ask all living beings to forgive us."
To my American Christian brothers and sisters who are before me and through them to the whole of Christendam, I have to say a few words.
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