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· CHAPTER XII. What Youth can do Today. Today the youth' is full of live interest in all the activities. It can help to build a nation as no other force can. Whatever the youth will do, the race too may and should eventually sụcceed in doing, for exceptional youth is the future type, the forerunner. The elders can give but only the young can act. But first, youth should open the doors and the windows of his soul, and more carefully listen to the inner voice, that he may the more carefully follow the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. And that he should remember the greatest greatness and the only true greatness in the world is unselfish love, service and self-devotion to one's fellow-men. India' today stands for peace and her policy is to see that peace is brought to the world, but it is not enough to declare peace in the world and speak about peace or non-violence. We should try to live according to our ideals if we want to achieve anything concrete in the world. We cannot have peace devoid of peace within. · At present we are devoid of this and that is why we are not able to build anything new but have tried to destroy wbat 18 old.
Surely the energy of youth can well be directed for the greater cause of peace. First of all character is to be built up as it is the one and only means of teaching. "Character is desting" This maxim applies to all, to young and
