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sumptuous nonentity by any controlling agency outside its own living organism. ‘I know that the idea of an International University is complex, but I must make it simple in my own way. I shall be content if it attracts round it men who have neither name nor fame nor worldly means, but who have the mind and the faith; who are to create a great future with their dreams.

Very likely, I shall never be able to work with a Board of Trustees, influential and highly respectable—for I am vagabond at heart. But the powerful people of the world, the lords of the earth, make it difficult for me to carry out my work. T know it, and I have had experience of it in connexion with Santiniketan. But [ am not afraid of failure. I am only afraid of being tempted away from trush, in pursuit of success. The temptation assaults me occasionally ; but it comes from the outside atmosphere. My own abiding faith is in life and light and freedom. And my prayer is:

“Lead me from the unreal to Truth.”

This letter of mine is to let you know that I free myself from the bondage of help, and go back to join the great ‘Brotherhood of the Tramps,’ who seem helpless, but are recruited by God for His own army.

I am writing this from Strasbourg where I am going to read my lecture at the University this evening. 8