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\n\tCALCUTTA, February 20th, 1908 } <\/b> <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nWork and Ideal
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\nWe are being advised by many nowadays not to quarrel over ideals but to attend to the work lying nearest to our hands.
\nWe must not talk of faith and hope, or revel in Utopian visions but run to the nearest scene of work, be one of the drudging
\nmillions, try to improve their lot and set ourselves to the task of mitigating human sufferings. The old villages are so many
\npictures of desolation and distress, they are the hot-beds of malaria, the sepulchres of our greatness; so go to them and
\ntry to reinstate our tutelary angel in his ancient seat. Or we must erect mills, start small industries, educate the masses, do
\nphilanthropic work and not talk of free or united India until this is done. When the spade work has not yet begun, why
\ntalk of a fine superstructure and create difficulties in the way of solid and substantial work? You have not yet put the plough to
\nyour land, why quarrel over the prospective produce and sow seeds of dissension amongst yourselves before you have sown
\nthe seed that is to yield any good to the country? The buoyant Nationalism of the day is sought to be repressed by such timid
\ntruisms and guarded amenities with which our advisers justify their placid course of life. They want us to take note of our
\nlimitations, our environment and not to tempt the country to the skies with wings so heavily weighed down. Common sense,
\nit is said, should be our guide and not imagination. A<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll this is well, and we would be the last to deny the necessity of the work so much insisted upon. But the work is nothing without the ideal, and will be fruitless if divorced from
\nits inspiring force. Which is common sense? To tread the right path or to avoid it because it promises to be thorny? Which is
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\n\tcommon sense? To mislead ourselves or to speak the truth and
\ndo the right? The uplifting of a nation cannot be accomplished by a few diplomatic politicians. The spirit to serve, the spirit to
\nwork, the spirit to suffer must be roused. Men in their ordinary utilitarian course of life do not feel called upon to serve anyone
\nexcept themselves. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\tThe daily duties are engrossing enough for the average man.
\nHis own individual prospects in life generally become his sole concern. He is propelled by the inertia of his own individual
\nneeds, and if any other sort of work is expected of him a different and more intense force must be continuously applied to
\nhim to produce the necessary energy. Or, in other words, we must continuously appeal to his better nature, we must evoke
\nthe spiritual in him, we must call forth his moral enthusiasm.
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\n\t\tThese may not be human nature’s daily food, they may
\nnot be necessary for our daily life, they may not have their use in the ordinary selfish pursuits, but they are essential for
\nworking a change in our social or political life. Buddha only preached and lived a holy life, Christ only preached and lived
\na holy life, Shankara only preached and lived a holy life, and they have each worked a mighty revolution in the history of
\nthe world. Inspiration is real work. Let the truly inspiring word be uttered and it will breathe life into dry bones. Let the inspiring life be lived and it will produce workers by thousands. England draws her inspiration from the names of Shakespeare
\nand Milton, Mill and Bacon, Nelson and Wellington. They did not visit the sickroom, they did not do philanthropic work in
\nthe parishes, they did not work spinning jennies in Manchester, they did not produce cutlery in Sheffield, but theirs are the names
\nwhich have made nationhood possible in England, which have supplied work and enterprise with its motive and sustaining
\nforce. England is commercially great because Adam Smith gave her the secret of free-trade. England is politically great because
\nher national ideals have been bold and high, not because of her parish work and municipalities. He was no fool or Utopian who
\nwished to be the maker of songs for his country rather than its law giver. Wolfe had Gray’s “Elegy” recited to him on his death  
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\n\tbed, and said he would rather be the author of these lines than
\nthe captor of Quebec. These are the utterances of great workers and heroes, they have given the greatest credit to the givers of
\nideas and ideals, because they have felt in their own life where the inspiration for work comes from. Work without ideals is a
\nfalse gospel.
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\n\tBy the Way
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\n\tNotables <\/b>
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\n\t\tWhen we wrote of the days of ancient greatness, we did not
\nthink that we were about to witness the singular spectacle of a Hindu society professing to restore the purity of the old religion
\nbowing down at the throne of Minto, who could recognize in the Lords of today the Rajas and Maharajas of modern India,
\nthe sons of the great Kshatriya blood? Minto and Morley are the representatives of Yavana and Saka of old. Did the princes
\nof ancient India go out of their way to kneel before their throne? Was that the glory of Hinduism? Or are we witnessing a revival
\nof the days when Asoka ruled over the Asiatic peoples? The Bharat Dharma Mahamandal aim at the revival of Hinduism
\nbut they are working for its final extinction.
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\n\tMinto Worship
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\n\t\tWhen we speak of the Notables bowing at the feet of Minto, we are aware that we shall lay ourselves open to the charge of
\ndisloyalty. Well, that is a charge we have never been anxious to avoid. When sedition is found in all we write, then it is no
\nadvantage picking and choosing our expressions. But we have one thing to say. Who made Lord Minto ruler of India? Not
\nthe hand of any earthly power but the decree of God, and if the Hindu people bow down before Minto, it is only as the Viceroy
\nof God. Is that the logic of the Bharat Dharma Mahamandal? If   
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\n\tso, it is a logic based on outward facts, not on the inner truths.
\nGod is today manifesting himself again, but where? Not in the glory of England, which is on the wane, but in the resurgence of
\nAsia. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t\tMinto is an archangel of peace, says Romesh Chandra Dutt; Morley an archangel of benevolence. With so many archangels
\nto look after us, we are unfortunate indeed if we cannot be happy. Poor India!
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\n\tRomesh Chandra Dutt is a statesman according to his own
\nidea of himself and statesmen are always looking out for their fellows. Romesh Chandra with his large-hearted appreciation
\nof the ruling qualities of the British race, Surendranath with his unswerving loyalty, Narendranath with his gratitude are,
\none would imagine, so many pillars of British rule. What about Romesh Chandra’s letters to Lord Curzon, Surendranath’s boycott or Narendranath’s secret hopes of Theosophical rule of Mahatmas? Whoever says one thing with his lips and another
\nin his heart, can never hope to help his country.
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\n\tTruth and Falsehood
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\n\tWhen we are on the subject, let us be frank. Truth is the rock on which the world is built.
\nSatyena tishthate jagat<\/i>. Falsehood can
\nnever be the true source of strength. When falsehood is at the root of a movement, that movement is doomed to failure. Diplomacy can only help a movement if the movement proceeds upon truth. To make diplomacy the root-principle is to contravene the
\nlaws of existence.   
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