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JANISM AND WOULD PROBLEAIS
nature may or may not demonstrate the survival of the fittest always ; but no human empire that has been built entirely on force has ever survived beyond a few centuries. The Muhammadan empire in India which at one time dazzled the whole world with its splendour is no more. The Czar and the Kaiser are gone. Indeed the Kaiser may come back into power, but if he does so it will only show that he is still loved by his people. Love it is that secures and binds, and I insist on the youth being trained adequately in the art of love to respect the lives and liberties of others all over the world.
li is true that superior force is the apparently decisive factor in warfare and struggle. But the true cause of strength itself is Love, and of weakness hatred. The Hindus, who were numerically inconceivably stronger than the Muhaminadans, were overpowered, because mutual hatred, and jealousies born of hatred, had sapped their strength, while the Muhaminadans worked with one purpose and will. The Muhammadans, in their turn, were also overpowered, later, because of their selfish ways. The cause of true strength is, thus, Love ; and of weakness, hatred.
I now come to the problem of fear. The question is, how to banish fear from the human heart? Now fear has a twofold aspect.
I fear of man
and o fear of a god or gods. Now, so far as the fear of man is concerned I think I have said enough on the subject to make it necessary to go over again into it. I need, therefore, only add here : if you want to have no fear from your neighbour, see that he has nothing left to fear from you, in the first instance. In other words, the measure of the freedom of our neighbour is strictly the measure of our own freedom. Love, as implied in the doctrine of ahimsa, will enable us to love and be loved by one another,
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