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MIRA AND MAHAVIR
debate ? The subject was "Wlien Man lives, God dies". A number of students and Professors took
part, and I got the first prize. MIRA-Did you succeed in slaying God-or he yet lives? MAHAVIR-You may laugh; but you know my views.
How can I believe in God ? No sensible man does nowadays--not even the older people. They say they do, but they do not, and only try to keep up the show. In any casc very few College students do,
and no one cares. MIRA-How interesting ! And so that is the latest
fashion ? MAHAVIR-Yes. Religion was the fashion fifty years
ago. They still pretend to believe in it, specially in schools for children and girls. But a College is
different. There we think for ourselves, -and speak. MIRA–And how well you do it too ! I wish I had been
at your debate, just to see how you could speak. MAHAVIR-It was a public debate, and you could have
come. They all agreed that I spoke best, and I convinced them too. Poor God! he can now lie in
peace, and Man has been given a chance ! Mira-And what a chance ! Do you really think Man
can live ? and for how long ? MAHAVIR--Men may die, but Man lives on. He has been
there for thousands of years, and will continue to be for ever so long.
