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Non-violence in Internal Affairs. Here is envisaged a new chapter not only in international relationships, but also in internal arrangements. For it is clear even to a superficial observer that much of the internal economy in most countries rests on a denial of equality of opportunity to large sections of the population. Our systems of caste and class rest in ultimate analysis partly on force and makebelieve and partly on tradition and habit. The new possibilities of plenty have knocked out whatever rational validity had been derived from the antiquated insufficiency of material commodities to go round. The way has now been cleared for the application of different maxims to human affairs. The principle of non-violence really means that equal regard be paid to the welfare of every single man, woman and child, and equal, effective and maximum opportuni· ties of self-realisation be placed within reach of all.
The Positive Role of Non-Violence. It will thus appear that the principle of nonviolence, far from being a negative precept as the term suggests, is in its practical application, a positive principle of the farthest reach. It points to a wholesa le transformation in the internal government of States as well as in their mutual contracts to a revision of social and economic arrangements. It is a matter of
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