nifiqIE. “ Although somewhat unique in its idiosyncracies and fanaticism, the Gandhi cult is not an innovation. Divested of the rebellious spirit and the shrewd politician in him, Tilak would resemble Gandhi in so far as religious beliefs and spiritual prejudices are concerned. But for his versatility in modern thoughts and characteristic looseness of conviction, Bepin Chandra Pal would perchance, join the Mahatma in the passionate denunciation of everything that adds to the material comfort of man. Had he been more of a monomaniac than a profound thinker with metaphysical pre-occupations, Arabinda Ghose would subscribe to Gandhi's philosophy, which pretends to command a rushing tide; “ thus for shalt thou go and no farther. " "Gandhism is nothing but pettybourgeois huinanitarianism hopelessly bewildered in the clashes of the staggering forces of human progress. Tle crocodile tears of this humanitari. anisni are shed ostensibly for the undeniable sufferings of the majority in capitalist society, but they are really caused by grief over the end of the old order, alıeady destroyed cr about to be so. Gandhismi pines for that ancient golden age when the majority were kept in blissful ignorance in order that a few could roll in idle luxury, undisturbed by the revolt of the discontented; the spiritual culture of which was based on the barbarism of the people at large; the simplicity of which was the sign of its back v. a dness, ') Com, M. N. Roy.
