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The Jaina Philosophy
civilization can keep pace with the activities, the demands and the luxuries of the material.
This problem, however, belongs to you, and only time can solve it. But whether or not the essential equilibrium is now realized, or may ever be, it remains true that your industrial progress on all lines of materiality, in the arts also, and in certain sciences, and in inventions and other things which go to aid the energy and labour of man, is marvellous to see. I have learned also that this question does not alone propose itself to me, who have not had opportunities to study it sufficiently. It is also disturbing the thought of this nation. The unrest, the unequal condition apparent in industrial society, the growth of monopolies, the concentration of wealth and its many encroachments, creating antagonisms where there should be harmony, and prophesying dangers where there should be security, are factors, which if true, threaten that peace and prosperity which it is the wish of all right thinking people all over the world that you may always enjoy.
In the name of India and her people, I offer the prayer that the evil which many of your wisest statesmen foresee, and which vast portions of your population seem to fear may never, never overtake you. If the evils and dangers to which I have referred to really exist, then, it will be the part of wisdom and humane method in the industrial life, and in the social life, and in the patriotic government, to allay apprehensions to destroy antagonisms, and to restore confidence by, mutual concessions and the just application of the universal law, which you called the 'Golden Rule' if do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
The next impression that I shall speak of concerns the social state and the family life of the American people as it has come under my observation. In some particulars this impression is unfavourable in others very grateful. In all thought, both in India
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