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gious spirit; earnestness and self-denial should be their guiding principles. They should grieve like commander Hirose of Japan tha they have only one life to give to their country. If such be the appeal to the downtrodden masses of India, they would conquer hearts of the multitudes of our people, who pay sincere homage to genuine character.”
Imbued with these motives, Har Dayal gave up his scholarship, much against the advice of his Principal and the Under-Secretary, Sir James L.yall. He sailed fou India in January, 1908, along with his wife, Sundar Rani.
Back in India, he preached his ideas through his personal life and private talks. The corner-stone of his ideas was nationalism. Soon, however, things hotted up in India for the revolutionaries, and Har Dayal was persuaded to go abroad for the sake of the Cause. In 1909, he was found editing the Bande Mataram, the official organ of the Indian Independence League from Geneva. In the columns of Bande Mataram, Har Dayal outlined his technique for fighting for Freedom thus : (a) Moral and intellectual preparation; (b) The second stage is that of war... And the only agent that can accomplish this work is the sword. No subject nation can bring Freedom without war; (c) After the war, reconstruction and consolidation.
Later, Har Dayal moved to U.S.A., and led the fomous Gaddar movement, which threw up countless heroes and martyrs. As the curtain fell on this episode, Har Dayal moved into channels of scholarship, facing heavy odds and self-chosen penury. End came in 1939, in Philadelphia. Har Dayal on Nationalism, Violence, War, Political Democracy
Before the end, he had reasons to modify his views on Nationalism, Violence, War, Political Democracy, and set them forth elaborately in the Hints (1934), with characteristic enthusiasm and erudition. Study of History made him a convinced cosmopolitan. He approvingly quoted Goethe, who said: "Above all nations is Humanity”; and went on to add that “The Unity of Mankind will shine forth like sunshine and destroy the malevolent microbes that breed such destructive plagues as Nationalism and Race-pride " He considered the study of World history as a cure for the "intellectual niyopia" from which some "squinting patriots and race. philosophers" suffer. They see only a part of Humanity and not the whole of it; and tend to forget that all men and women belong to the
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