INDIAN HOME RULE
apply to the millions. In order to restore India to its pristine condition, we have to return to it. In our own civilisation, there will naturally be progress, retrogression, reforms and reactions; but one effort is required, and that is to drive out Western civilisation. All else will follow.
CHAPTER XIX.
Machinery.
Reader: When you speak of driving out Western civilisation, I suppose you will also say that we want no machinery.
Editor: By raising this question you, have opened the wound I had received. When I read Mr. Dutt's Economic History of India, I wept; and, as I think of it again my heart sickens. It is machinery that has impoverished India. It is difficult to measure the harm that Manchester has done to us. It is due to Manchester that Indian handicraft has all but disappeared.
But I make a mistake. How can Manchester be blamed? We wore Manchester cloth, and that is why Manchester wove it. I was delighted when I read about the bravery of
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