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JAINISM AND WORLD PROBLEMS
The first of these requires
(a) toleration, in the fullest sense of the term, for all differences of opinion about religion and other matters spiritual and temporal,
(b) love of the country and countrymen, and (c) the capacity to sacrifice personal ideals and ambitions for the good of the nation.
The second means
(a) a strong, healthy, energetic body;
(b) a strong mind capable of knowing its own good; (c) an iron will that refuses to yield to temptation;
and
(d) general practical knowledge of the world, including expert scientific familiarity with the particular department of life with which one happens to be chiefly concerned.
All the ruling nations in the world possess these qualifications, and it is idle to imagine that we can throw off the English yoke without them. Without a strong healthy body no one will ever respect our personality. The bully and the knave only respect brute force. The average European is a sportsman, and has no admiration for him who slinks away without showing fight. No amount of monetary damages can therefore be adequate compensation for loss of prestige on the spot. The Englishman respects the Boer and even the German with whom he was recently at war, but not the Indian who helped him to win the war for this very reason. Apart from this, there is no department or walk of life where you can possibly hope to get on well without a strong healthy body.
The advantages of a strong mind are obvious and need no description. The same is the case with knowledge; but it is necessary to say with respect to the third item of efficiency, namely, an iron will, the real soul-force that is vaguely talked of by platform orators, that it is the one thing
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