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JAINISM AND WORLD PROBLEMS
Materially also, the practising of such virtues as truthfulness, justice, forgiveness, mercy, self-denial and temperance must bring peace of mind, popularity, respect and prosperity to the individual. He can have no enemies left in the world, but only friends all round.
(2) From the national point of view, ahimsa will be found to be the source of confidence and goodwill. It will do away with the need for heavy armaments ; it will not tolerate long-range guns, nor poison gas, nor the bombing of cities and suburbs from aeroplanes. With the reduction of the military and the police there will be immediately a reduction of taxation, and life will once more become tolerable and joyous. Nation will live at peace with nation : passports will be unknown, so will be the temperament that seeks exploitation and self-aggrandiseinent. Men will practise the golden rule sumined up in the phrase 'live and let live,' in reality and truth.
(3) Excessive industrialisation will be checked under ahimsa. We are all eager to become manufacturers to day, Under the guidance of ahimsa life will be simplified ; manufactures will be limited; mechanization will be restricted. Every nation will become self-supporting and self-dependent, growing its own foods.
At the present rate of progress' the day is in sight when everywhere there will be manufacturers and producers and nowhere buyers ! Reduction in the number of factories will at once strike at the root of unemployment, since they render idle more men than they employ. It is bad policy to starve many to fill the pockets of a few.
(4) The doctrine of love will also induce legislators to find means of suitably dealing with the problem of the excess of women over men, which, in its turn, will also go to reduce unemployment, and, along with the check on excessive in. dustrialization, will root it out altogether. I might mention in this connection that for those countries where the number
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