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to the Wordsworthian view that the child comes from heaven. He affirms that :
We were perhaps all originally brutes. I am prepared to believe that we have become men by a slow process of evolution from the brute.-0
Again, man may choose either of the two courses : the upward or the downward. But as he has brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course. Everyone of us is a mixture of good and evil. But the difference between the cultured and the brute lies only in degree. Even the men of God are not without fault. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, and are ever ready to correct themselves. The glory is that the man is not mere brute. He is above all, the soul, and so has goodness in himself. According to Gandhiji :
There is no contradiction between God and man. as well as in the lower order of creation. Soul transcends time and space and unifies all apparently separate existence 21
Life, according to Gandhiji, is an inspiration and its mission is to strive for self-realization. This is the ideal of life which he prescribes for all. The soul is one in all and is, therefore, the same for all. The aim of human life is nothing different from that of Hindu seers. But unlike most of them, Gandhiji says that it can be attained even in the midst of family. He says :
A cave dweller can build castle in the air whereas a dweller in a palace like Janaka has no castles to build. A Janaka though living in the midst of pomp and circumstances may have peace that passeth understanding. 22
Thus, we can say that Gandhiji believes in the spiritual nature of man. As a result, his concept of equality of man develops. Being the children of God, all men are brothers. All men are born equal for him but one is much stronger or
