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 for his energies and honour and whatever he thinks is due to his conscience. I think that this is true of the British Empire, as it is not true of any other Govern- ment. (Applause.) I feel, as you here perhaps know, that I am no lover of any Government and I have more than one said that that Government is best which governs least. And I have found that it is possible for me to be governed least under the British Empire. Hence my loyalty to the c Bntish Empire. (Loud applause).

��ADVICE TO STUDENTS. *

Mr. Gandhi delivered the following speech at the Y. M. 0. A. in reply to the Madras Students' address on April 27, 1915, the Hon. Mr. V. S. Snnivasa Sastri presiding.

Mr. Chairman and Dear Friends, Madras as well- nigh exhausted the English vocabulary in using adjec- tives of virtue with reference to my wife and myself, and, if I may be called upon to give an opinion as to where I have been smothered with kindness, love and attention, I would have to say : it is Madras. (Applause). But as I have said so often, I believed it of Madras. So it is no wonder to me that you are lavishing all these kindnesses with unparalleled generosity, and now the worthy pre- sident of the Servants of India -Society under which society I am going through a period of probation has, if I may say so, capped it all. Am I worthy of these things? My answer from the innermost recesses of my heart is an emphatic " No." But' I have come to India to become worthy of every adjective that you may use, and all my life will certainly be dedicated to prove worthy of them, if I am to be a worthy servant.

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