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 as Mr. Irwin falsely suggests at my request but by the agitation carried on, as your files would demonstrate, by Mr. Irwin and his friends of the Anglo-Indian Association. If he is wise, he will abide by his written word, voluntarily and after full discussion and delibera- tion, given by him at Ranchi.

ON WOMANHOOD

��The annual gathering of the Bombay Ethagini Samaj was held on Wednesday, February 20, 1918, at the Morarji Gokuldas Hall^ under the presidency of Mr* M. K. Gandhi. The annual report of the Samaj having been read by the General Secretary, the President distributed prizes to the pupils of the female classes, and delivered a very informing address on the education of-women t in the course of which he said :

It is necessary to understand what we mean when we talk of the regeneration of women. It presupposes degeneration and if that is so we should further consider what led to it and how. It is our primary duty to have some very hard thinking on these points. In travelling all over India, I have come to realize that all the existing agitation is confined to an infinitesimal section of our people who are really a mere speck in the vast firmament. Crores of people of both the sexes live in absolute ignorance of this agitation, Full eighty-five per cent of the people of this country pass their innocent days in a state of total detachment from what is going on around them. These men and women ignorant as they are do their <k bit" in life well and properly. Both have the same education or rather the

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