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Rh the Thugs are our own countrymen. To conquer them is your and my work. So long as we fear our own brethren, we are unfit to reach the goal.


 * You have deprived me of the consolation I used to have regarding peace in India.


 * I have merely given you my opinion on the religious aspect, but when I give you my views as to the poverty of India you will perhaps begin to dislike me, because what you and I have hitherto considered beneficial for India no longer appears to me to be so.


 * What may that be?


 * Railways, lawyers and doctors have impoverished the country, so much so that, if we do not wake up in time, we shall be ruined.


 * I do now indeed fear that we are not likely to agree at all. You are attacking the very institutions which we have hitherto considered to be good.


 * It is necessary to exercise patience. The true inwardness of the evils of civilization you will understand with difficulty. Doctors assure us that a consumptive clings to life even when he is about to die. Consumption does not produce