eyes, and extended my arms calling
thee either tenderly and quietly, or strenuously, demanding that thou
shouldst rebel against the iron chains which bound thee to the earth._

KRISHNA.

So matters went on, and still go on, in the Christian world. But we
might have hope that in the immense Brahman, Buddhist, and Confucian
worlds this new scientific superstition would not establish itself, and
that the Chinese, Japanese, and Hindus, once their eyes were opened to
the religious fraud justifying violence, would advance directly to a
recognition of the law of love inherent in humanity, and which had
been so forcibly enunciated by the great Eastern teachers. But what has
happened is that the scientific superstition replacing the religious one
has been accepted and secured a stronger and stronger hold in the East.

In your periodical you set out as the basic principle which should guide
the actions of your people the maxim that: 'Resistance to aggression is
not simply justifiable but imperative, nonresistance hurts both Altruism
and Egotism.'

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills, and in it you
too have the only method of saving your people from enslavement. In very
ancient times love was proclaimed with special strength and clearness
among your people to be the religious basis of human life. Love, and
forcible resistance to evil-doers, involve such a mutual contradiction
as to destroy utterly the whole sense and meaning of the conception of
love. And what follows? With a light heart and in the twentieth
century you, an adherent of a religious people, deny their law, feeling
convinced of your scientific enlightenment and your right to do so, and
you repeat (do not take this amiss) the amazing stupidity indoctrinated
in you by the advocates of the use of violence--the enemies of truth,
the servants first of theology and then of science--your European
teachers.

You say that the English have enslaved your people and hold them in
subjection because the latter have not resisted resolutely enough and
have not met force by force.

But the case is just the opposite. If the English have enslaved the
people of India it is just because the latter recognized, and still
recognize, force as the fundamental principle of the social order. In
accord with that principle they submitted to their little rajahs, and
on their behalf struggled against one another, fought the Europeans, the
English, and are now trying to f