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D. Rees, c. I. E,; Lieut-Colonel T. Warliker; Mrs. and Miss Arathoon; Mrs. F. Aublet; Mr. H. R. Cook; Mt. W. Coldstream; Mr. B. B. Costin; Mr. Bab Chet; Raizada Eswan Das; Mrs. Delafore; Miss Gawthrop; Miss Hertz; Mr. Shyamaji Khrishnavarma; Mr. Emlyn Lewys; Mr. Sayed Alay Mabomed, 1.C.S.; Mr. V. J. Modi; Mr.J. B. Pennington; Mr. H. Prince F, R. G. s.; Mr. Alexander Rogers; Mr. R. P. Roy; Mr.Kanwar Sain; The Misses Snitko; Mr. M. E. Tatham; Mr. W. T. Turton; Miss Webster; Mr. C. W. Whish; Mr. W. Martin Wood. Mr. C. W. Ara:hoon, Hon. Secretary.
The Chairman having briefly introduced Mr. Gandhi the paper was read. *
The chairman afterwards said: Ladies and gentlemen, this paper will have convinced everybody that the Jains, who have done so much for education in India, and taken so advanced a position in the liberalizing of the studies of that country, are a people whose philosophy and ideas have a claim to our serious consideration. Such a people, with such a class spirit amongst them, could not have been produced unless there were latent in the principles which govern them something raising them above our ordinary plate of everyday thoughts and aspirations. Therefore we must be grateful to the Jains, and must endeavour, if we can, to penetrate into the secret underlying notives of their mental activity. In that we shall be assisted by the paper just
* See this paper elsewhere in this book.
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