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should cultivate an attitude of working for oneself and through oneself for fulfilling social needs. This requires shaking off of distinctions of high and low, rich and poor, the haves and have-nots and so on. All this is a must and for this it is necessary that
“We must overcome the lack of mutual understrading and achieve a more vital and all-pervading sense of the human and spiritual life in the individual and the group.” (p. 64).
Next what is required is to consider both the quantity and quality of human desirables. Man should know how to fulfil his own desires as also to curb them, to control them.
To-day, after fifty year's new problems have arisen in the econmic relations between countries and nations and these have again a dangerous and ghastly effect on political and international relations. The unrest brought about by grave iuequalities resulting in extreme riches of some individuals in society and of some countries and poverty rampant and extreme of some individuals and groups and countries. Mad race for prosperity leads to mad power-politics and the politics of prosperity and poverty has overshadowed both our politics and international relations. Things are far worse today in the realms of politics and international relations than the author could conceive of. Democracy is said to be the best form of government, though this so-called democracy has countless types and it has not made nian happier. Socialism and communism followed and led to dianietrically opposed power-blocks. Religious fundamentalism with all its grave dangers has entered the realm, communism is crumbling fast.
So many things could have been stated, though in matters of reconstruction and transformation the author's treatment is rather brief and incomplete. What is necessary is an off-shoot of the moral, spiritual, ethical and unity of outlook that religion gives. He wants a fostering of oneness of thought, and a change in "national psychology in its attitude to war." Here only an international outlook and its slow but sure cultivation and fostering can help. But in this cultivation and fostering, it should be known that
"Internationalism is not a scientific device like the wireless or the telephone which the world can, all of a sudden take to. It is a delicate plant which it takes long to rear.” (p. 68). What is necessary is that
“The world must be imbued with a love of humanity. We want religious heroes who will not wait for the transformation of the whole world
