LETTER XXV. INDIAN UNREST 



BOMBAY, June 2gth, 1913. 



IN one of my earliest letters to you I dwelt on what, 

 to make it palatable, is termed Indian unrest. 



Some years have passed since then; my ex- 

 perience has increased, my observation has been 

 prolonged, and my consideration of the subject 

 constant. 



Perhaps you may be interested in a later ex- 

 pression of my views on the subject. 



In Europe and in America there is a marked 

 tendency on the part of the labour and lower 

 middle class to take an entirely new view of life. 

 They have realised that they do not enjoy to so 

 full an extent as do those in the superior couches 

 sociales the good things of this world. Not only 

 have they set themselves to think out the reason 

 for this distinction, but they have at the same 

 time devoted their thoughts to the correction, at 

 almost any cost to the community as a whole, 

 of what quite naturally presents itself to them 

 as an indefensible state of affairs. 



In India also, a new view of life is presenting 

 itself to the people. With the rapid and wholesale 

 increase in intercommunication, the spread of 

 knowledge born of Western education, and the 

 self-reliance created by a more accurate knowledge 

 of Western conditions, there has radiated from the 



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