Harijan Poona—Saturday September 10 1938

The body itself as I told you is the purest piece of mechanism ; but if it is a hindrance to the highest flights of the soul it has to be rejected." I do not think any of the critics would be in fundamental disgreement with this position. [...] " Quite so and the defects Gandhiji pointed out were not inherent defects but the defects of its tendencies and Gandhiji's object in the book was to contrast the tendencies of the Indian civilisation with those of the Western. [...] The Congress has objection not to the name but to the contents of an Act going under that name and then too not to every word or section of the Act. [...] the following rejoinder in reply to the statement of the Dhwan of Travancore : " I have read the Travancore Dewan's statment with the attention it deserves. [...] In the.perpetrators the results of violence are the formation of a habit of brutality and a growing determination to retain power by even the foulest means.