THE WAY TO GET IT DONE
By Rabindranath Tagore
(Specially translated for the Modern Review)
This paper was read by the author in 1905-6 and, like the “Swadeshi Samaj” translated for our last number, it is remarkably apposite to the present situation. Ed, M R
The river may think that it divides a country, but it really brings one part nearer another by carrying commerce and keeping open a permanent way. In a disunited country foreign domination is just such a unifying agency, and it is as the instrument of divine providence for this purpose that British Rule in India has been touched with glory. This process of unification will go on even if England does not like it.
History has shown that no permanent good can be gained by one set of men at the expense of another. Only in a harmonious development is to be found that permanent force of coherence which we call Dharma. If the harmony be destroyed, so is the dharma and — Dharma eva hato hanti
