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\n\tThe Congress Movement <\/font><\/b>
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\n\tWith the opening of the twentieth century there is visible in
\nIndia\u2014 visible at least to a trained political observer who is accustomed to divine the flux & change of inner forces from the
\nslight signs that are the first faintly heard footsteps of the future & does not limit himself to the imposing & external features
\nwhich are often merely the landmarks of the past\u2014 a remarkable & most vital change in the feeling and thought habit of our
\nnation or at least of those classes in it whose thought & action most tells on the future. The
\n\tlife-stream of our national existence
\nis taking a massive swerve towards a far other ocean than the direction of its flow hitherto had ever presaged. If I say that the
\nCongress movement has spent itself, I shall be reminded of the Ahmedabad Congress, the success of the Industrial Exhibition
\nand the newborn enthusiasm of Gujarat. Are these, it may be said, symptoms of decline & weakness? The declining forces of
\na bygone impetus touching a field which it had not yet affected, assume thereby some resemblance to their first youthful vigour
\nbut must not on that account be mistaken for the great working vitality of youth & manhood. The political activity of the nation
\ngathering itself into the form of the Congress rose for some time with noise and a triumphant surging impetus until like a wave
\nas it culminates breaking upon rocks, it dashed itself against the hard facts of human nature & the elementary conditions
\nof successful political action which the Congress leaders had never grasped or had chosen to ignore; there it stopped and
\nnow there is throughout the country the languor, the weakness, the tendency to break up & discohere of the retiring wave. But
\nbehind & under cover of this failure & falling back there has been slowly & silently gathering another & vaster wave the first
\nAn incomplete essay written sometime after the Ahmedabad Congress (December 1902).<\/i>   
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\n\tvoices of which are now being heard, the crests of whose foam
\nare just mounting here & there into view. Soon it will push aside or assimilate its broken forerunner, occupy the sea and ride on
\nsurging and shouting to its predestined failure or triumph. By the succession of such waves shall our national life move forward
\nto its great & inevitable goal. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tFor us of the new age, who are to mount on the rising
\nslope of the wave even if we do not live to ride on its crest, the first necessity is to understand the career of our predecessor, the
\nprinciple of its life and the source of its weakness. I have said that the Congress movement broke itself on the hard facts of
\nhuman nature [incomplete<\/i>]<\/span><\/p>\n

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