“For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide. With the loss of India to nonviolence the last hope of the world will be gone.” ~ Gandhi, Harijan, October 14, 1939

We would have to say that India is not altogether lost to nonviolence; that flame can be seen if not in the halls of government (in any country, that will be the last place to go) then here and there in many social experiments and many hearts.  Moreover its light, as Prime Minister Nehru said in his moving eulogy of Gandhi, has been picked up all over the world, and is spreading and becoming brighter. Inevitably, at some point, the “tipping point” will occur and we will no longer have to say “the world comprehended it not” but rather that it has at last shone forth as the true condition of the human spirit.

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