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104 Through our slavery the nation has been enslaved, and it wiil be free with our freedom.


 * The question of religious education is very difficult.


 * Yet we cannot do without it. India will never be godless. Rank atheism cannot flourish in that land. The task is indeed difficult. My head begins to turn as I think of religious education. Our religious teachers are hypocritical and selfish; they will have to be approached. The Mullas, the Dasturs and the Brahmins hold the key in their hands, but if they will not have the good sense, the energy that we have derived from English education will have to be devoted to religious education. This is not very difficult. Only the fringe of the ocean has been polluted, and it is those who are within the fringe who alone need cleansing. We who come under this category can even cleanse ourselves, because my remarks do not apply to the millions. In order to restore India to its prestinepristine [sic] condition, we have to return to it. In our own civilization, there will naturally be progress, restrogressionretrogression [sic], reforms, and reactions; but one effort is required, and that is to drive out Western civilization. All else will follow.