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panacea for all evils mundane and extra-mundane. We can never overdo it. Just at present we are not doing it at all. Ahimasa does not displace the practice of other virtues, but renders their practice im- peratively necessary before it can be practised even ir its rudiments. Mahavira and Buddha were soldiers, and so was Tolstoy. Only they saw deeper and truer intc their profession, and found the secret of a true, happy honourable and godly life. Let us be joint sharers with these teachers, and this land of ours will once more be the adode of Gods.

ENCONOMIC vs. MORAL PROGRESS

��The following t.s a lecture delivered by Mr* Gandh, at a meeting of the Muir Central College Economii Society, held at Allahabad, on Friday, 22nd December 1916.

Does economic progress clash with real progress! By economic progress, I take it, we mean materia advancement without limit, and by real progress W( mean moral progress, 'which again is the same thing as progress of the permanent element in us. The subject may therefore be stated thus ; Does not mora progress increase in the same proportion as materia progress? I know that this is a wider propositioi than the one before us. But I venture to think that we always mean the large one even when we lay down th< smaller. For we know enough of science to realiz< that there is no such thing as perfect rest or repose h this visible universe of ours. If, therefore, materia progress does not clash with moral progress, it mus

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