Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule)

Thus Professor Soddy remarks that, having just returned from a visit to India, he saw little outwardly to suggest that the doctrine inculcated in the book had attained any considerable measute of success. That is quite true. Equally true is Mr. G. D. H. Cole’s remark that though Gandhiji ii 44 as near as a man can be to Swaraj in a purely person^) sense,” 14 he has never solved, to his own satisfaction, the other problem — that of finding terms of collaboration that could span the gulf between man and man, between acting alone and helping others to act in accordance with their lights, which involves acting with them and as one of them — being at once one’s self and someone else, someone one’s self can and must regard and criticize and attempt to value.” Also as John Middleton Murry says, “ the efficacy of nonviolence is quickly exhausted when used as a mere technique of political pressure”, — when the question arises, ‘ Is non-violence fante de mieux , really non-violence at all ? ’