Page:Gandhi - Freedom's battle.djvu/149

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.


HINDU MOSLEM UNITY


[A dialogue between Editor and reader on the Hindu-Moslem Unity—Indian Home Rule]


THE HINDUS AND THE MAHOMEDANS.

Editor: Your last question is a serious one, and yet, on careful consideration, it will be found to be easy of solution. The question arises because of the presence of the railways of the lawyers, and of the doctors. We shall presently examine the last two. We have already considered the railways. I should, however, like to add that man is so made by nature as to require him to restrict his movements as far as his hands and feet will take him. If we did not rush about from place to place by means of railways such other maddening conveniences, much of the confusion that arises would be obviated. Our difficulties are of our own creation. God set a limit to a man’s locomotive ambition in the construction of his body. Man immediately proceeded to discover means of overriding the limit. God