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 sunk : the new spirit, if properly directed, would bring blesssing to both nations and to the world. If India adopted Western modern civilisation as Japan had done, there must be perpetual conflict and grasping between Briton and Indian. If, on the other hand, India's ancient civilisation can withstand this latest assault, as it has withstood so many before, and be, as of old, the reli- gious teacher, the spiritual guide, then there would be no impassable barrier between East and West. Some circumstances exist, said Mr, Gandhi, which we cannot understand ; but the main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly; the soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

��ON ANARCHICAL CRIMES.

��The following is the summary of an address delivered at the Students' Hall, College Square, Calcutta, in Maroh 1915 with the H,ov. Mr. Lyon in the chair,

Though it was the command of his Guru, the late Mr. Gokhale that Mr. Gandhi, during his stay here should keep his ears open but his mouth shut, he could not resist the temptation of addressing the meeting. It was the opinion of the speaker as well as his departed Guru that politics shonld not be a sealed book to the student community ; for he saw no reason why student should not study and take part in politics. He went the length of saying that politics should not be divorced from religion. They would agree with him as well as their teachers, professors and the worthy Chairman that literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character. Could it be said that the students or the public men in this 'country are entirely fearless ?

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