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PREFACE.
I published last year a volume containing the speeches and writings of the late Mr. Virchand Raghavji Gandhi, on the fain Philosophy, and am glad to say that the public at large has appreciated my labours. Thenceforth the trustees of the Seth Devchand Lalbhai Pustakoddhar Fund, consented at my request to publish Mr. Gandhi's remaining speeches and writings on the Yoga Philosophy, and the Karma Philosophy, in two volumes, the present being the first of them, and to include them in the series of this Fund. Thus these two volumes will be sold to the public at nearly half the cost price.
What the late Mr. Gandhi has done for Jainism has never been done by any Jain layman or priest. He went to America and Europe to preach the gospel of Lord Mahaveer and to some extent his was a successful mission, which would bave been more so but for the indillcrence shown by the community here in India, and also his untimely death. Nothing has been done to place his noble work on a sound and permanent footing. Nothing can be hoped till again a great Jain of his type appears on the scene as the chances of success are at present greater than they were then. He was a student of the Western Philosophy, ind in the Jain Philosophy, he was specially trained under Srimad Vijayanandsuri, than
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