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rules do not provide for residential qualification, which is confined to some of the other provinces.
In January, 1919, I visited Bombay as a member of the South- borough Committee. Some time before, while we were at Nagpore, my friend Mr. Dalvi had obtained from me the promise that I would unveil the portrait of Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji, which had been subscribed for by the students of the Elphinstone College. I had now to redeem this pledge. The function was performed at the University Convocation Hall, which had been lent for the purpose, before a large and distinguished gathering under the presidency of Principal Covernton. I delivered a fairly long speech, for which of course I can find no place in these reminiscences. But there is one matter which is perhaps of perennial interest to the Indian politician and has come to the forefront in connexion with the Non-Co-operation controversy. In all countries in the world, especially in India with its emotional people and its consti- tution still in the making, the struggle between the ideal and the real is an ever-present factor. The struggle has to be continued from generation to generation, until some reasonable approach to a fusion between the ideal and the real has been attained. To the young, the custodians of the future, the question is one of sur- passing interest. Here was a great gathering of young men of Western India, and I spoke to them on this subject as follows:
'Gentlemen, Idealism is a good thing. I am an ardent idealist. We can never be content with the present. Discontent, when regulated and con- trolled, is divine. We are all yearning for a brighter, nobler, more glorious future. The first streaks of the dawn are almost visible, heralding the birth of a new day for India. We are all preparing ourselves to salute the new sun of liberty that will soon spread warmth and radiance over this ancient land, the land of the Vedic Rishis of old, who chanted on the banks of our sacred rivers those hymns which represent the first yearnings of infant humanity towards the divine ideal. Dadabhai and others, working under the inspiration of the noblest ideals, toiled for the advent of this great day. Let us not therefore minimize the value of ideals. They appeal to the imagination, stir the heart, stimulate the noblest springs of action; but the ideal and the practical must be blended into one harmonious whole. There must be no divorce between them. The ideal must be subordinated to the practical, governed by the environments of the situation, which must be slowly, steadily developed and improved towards the attainment of the ideal. In nature as well as in the moral world there is no such thing as a cataclysm. Evolution is the supreme law of life and of affairs.
Our environments, such as they are, must be improved and developed,