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 810 MISCELLANEOUS

rather than as tyrants, I would have the future genera* tiona remember that we who witnessed the innocent dying did not ungratefully refuse bo cherish their memory, As Mrs. Jinnah truly remarked when sha gave her mite to the fund, the memorial would at least give ua an excuse for living, After all b will he the spirit in which the memorial is erected that will decide it* character,

What was the larger "symbiosis" that Buddha and Christ preached? Buddha fearlessly carried the war into the enemy's camp and brought down on its knees an arrogant priesthood, Christ drove out the money changer from the temple of Jerusalem and drew down curse from Heaven upon the hypocrites and tha phariseea, Both were for intensely direct action. Bat even as Buddha and Christ chastised, they showed unmistakable gentleness and love behind every act of theirs. They would not raise a finger against their enemies, but would gladly surrender themselves rather than the truth for whioh they lived. Buddha would have died resisting the priesthood, if the majesty of his love had not proved to be equal to the task of bonding tha priesthood. Christ died on the cross with a crown of thorns on his head defying the might of a whole empire. And if I raise resistances of a non-violent character, I simply and humbly follow in the foot-stapa of the great teachers named by my critic,

Lastly, the writer of the paragraph quarrels with my grouping unities and would have me take up " the larger mission for uniting the world", I once told him under a common roof that I was probably more cosmopolitan than he. I abide by that expression.

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