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20 and of this, is the repudiation of violence. That repudiation I learnt, and understood, from the Gospels, where it is most clearly expressed in the words, "It was said to you, An eye for an eye," i.e. you have been taught to oppose violence by violence, but I teach you: turn the other cheek when you are struck; i.e. suffer violence, but do not employ it. I know that the use of those great words—in consequence of the unreflectingly perverted interpretations alike of Liberals and of Churchmen, who on this matter agree—will be a reason for most so-called cultured people not to read this article, or to be biassed against it; but nevertheless I place those words as the epigraph of this work.

I cannot prevent people who consider themselves enlightened, from considering the gospel teaching to be an obsolete guide to life a guide long outlived by humanity. But I can indicate the source from which I drew my consciousness of a truth which people are yet far from recognising, and which alone can save men from their sufferings. And this I do

11th July 1900.