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FOREWORD
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thought is always of a high level, the reasoning is always well sustained and the diction always terse and balanced. Every sentence is surcharged with a force that comes of restraint and eloquence gathers from passage to passage with the very simplicity of style and gravity of utterance. The selection here made is full representative of these qualities of Mahatmaji's style. They have a rare quality and virtue in them which can be born of inspiration only and which reminds us forcibly of the prophets of old. Some of them indeed are bright ringlets of gold that shall shine for ever on the stretched forefinger of time, without exception they are all like the srutis of Vedic India, terse, condensed, each and all to be noted, memorised, and transmitted from generation to generation as the priceless repositories of Truth Everlasting.

Of Mahatma Gandhi himself little can be said here which has not been already and so ably said by others. Such great persons as Romian Rolland and A. E., (George Russell), have hailed Mahatma as

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