The Forum August 5 1924

The quedivest himself of one of the two functions tion really is the constitution of the fighthat'resided in him or for the development ing and police forces of the Indian prof public opinion in favour of a step which vince and of the whole country by foreiwent against the traditions of centuries. [...] This concessions" to smooth the path to Swaraj latter movement has put in a clear-cut form the this idea has lingered in the mind of the Indian contrast between nationalism and constitutiopolitical% and of late considerable stimulus has alism and brought home to the c)nsciousness been receive 1 by it from the decision of the of the people the duty of choosing whether they Swarajya Party not [...] of the Naturally the most important limb of the supreme value of altruism as the most salient of state w.rs no longer the puppet monarch at the all the factory that make for the well-being of old capital but the new organ of popular goverhumanity and as the fountain-head of all virtues. ment the National Assembly at Aggora. [...] The worship with a feeling that it is the morning after the of the State the trickeries of the financiers the night tefore." That feeling may of course be tyranny of machinery the horrors of of contrition—a godly sorrow for sin—or it all are shown to us as the seeds of the revolt of may be but one of attrition a sense the one the masses. [...] made conscious by the ghosts of the killed of the Now it is the turn of the stage to tell us the guilt of her silent acquiescence in the resort to same story.