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of each other's brute force. This is not freedom even for the nations that are free, who are and have to remain armed to the teeth. True freedom consists in being free from fear altogether. If we aspire to enjoy true national freedom for ourselves, we inust first set our neighbours free from fear of ourselves. The measure of our freedom, in reality, is the ineasure of the freedom of our neighbours, near and remote.
Ahimsa is Universal love, and will attain this high ideal, however much it may be beyond the conception of men to. day. Love, and you are sure to be loved. There is only one condition let your love proceed from the heart but not from the tongue !
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