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1914). JAINA GAZETTE.
243 is my daty to my neighbour ? Love him like yourself. This is only a counsel of perfection. We have to wait for the Fifth monarchy, or the millennium. Christ came and taught us the doctrine of tarning the other cheek. The Buddhists, and best of all, the Jainas, taught the doctrine of sparing life ; but all these great men and their doctrines have not yet conquered the whole world. Creed, caste and colour, greed and glory, ambition and adventure have kept the world divided and many many times over divided against itself and the ideal of the Brotherhood of man. Fatherhood of God has remained still an ideal. The goal is very distant. But we despair not. Science and its applications have made the whole world, like a small town and the wireless, and boats, and trains, and the Press and the Post, keep up our hearts and the reformer yet hopes that the promised land is near and that great God himself is stooping nearer to humanity to unite it in its most important and fruit-bearing activity. The moral welfare of humanity is an anxious concern of all publicists. To take you through the ethics of the peripatetics or the academicians -of Greece, including the doctrine of Zeno and his followers, then that of the Romaos, the theory of nature, the scholastic theory of God and Theology, up to the modern doctrine of utility, self-interest and socialism would take too long even if I were capable of sketching the whole course before you. Therefore we can just glance at the problem of to-night
The Moral Welfare of the Community, in the light of the remarks I have made above. The question then is this. To achieve the moral cleanliness and greatness of society, which of the two standards of morality should be subordinated to the other, to what extent, subject to what conditions. The question is not free from many difficulties. Subordination of self-regarding morality is a premium on real immorality. Also it is impossible of attainment: merely for apparent morality people will never forsake their real individual convictions, Therefore individual morality mast be encouraged and allowed fall plàyMoral action must be induced and not compelled
from outside. But this may wreck the whole structure of Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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