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Foundations of Indian Swaraj

1925

But when the old sanctions of the Christian religion and philosophy became the serviceable handmaids of unscrupulous men who sat in places of authority and power and when the world saw the unholiness of the holy the oppression of the protector the low life of the great and the relentlessness of those from whom mercy should have flown when the world was a witness to these it had to invent new [...] And when progress in the principles of ecnomics as a science the discoveries made in biology the vast deductions made from a comparative study of the growth and decline of societies established the 47Foundations of Indian Swaraj deduction of the survival of fittest as a patent conclusion even the sober aspect of the Positivist school began to lose its value in the philosophic and scientific w [...] And the advent of the doctrine of the survival of the fittest further blocked the way of the positivists. [...] From the greatest 49Foundations of I ndian Swaraj happiness of the greatest number to the survival of the fittest—what a gaping space for refuted humanitarianism to reoccupy ! It would seem as though the unorganised assault on the citadels of religion that disestablished pre-Protestant Christianity were organised on a scientific basis on the theory of the survival of the fittest with the consequen [...] The time may not be far off when one democracy may try to become as efficient " as another in order to obtain the cotton of Egypt the wheat of the Punjab the jute of Bengal the wool of Cashmere the oils of Persia the pearls of Ceylon and the gold of Kolar.
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Pages
127
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145790
Segment Pages Author Actions
Foreword
i-ix K. Rao view
Chapter I Introductory
1-9 K. Rao view
Chapter II The Fallacy of Soul Power
10-42 K. Rao view
Chapter III The Outlook of the West
43-64 K. Rao view
Chapter IV The Fallacy of Common Disabilities
65-78 K. Rao view
Chapter V The Creed of the Charka
79-93 K. Rao view
Chapter VI The Fallacy of Birthright
94-105 K. Rao view
Chapter VII Surrender or Decadence?
106-118 K. Rao view

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