Document in political thought in modern India vol.II

Document in political thought in modern India contain different ocument by different personality.
Mr M. K. Gandhi delivered an interesting and well thought-out address last night at the Socialist Hall, Market Street, under the auspices of the Socialist Committee, entitled 'Modern as Compared with Ancient Civilization'. The hall was crowded.

Mr Gandhi prefaced his remarks with an apology to those who might differ from his views, and excused himself on the ground that he was an ardent searcher after truth. Modern civi lization, he said, could be summed up by two expressions. One was that it represented ceaseless activity, and the second was that it aimed at the annihilation of space and time. Everybody now adays appeared to be preoccupied, and to him that appeared a dangerous symptom. They were all so intent upon earning bread and butter that they had no time for anything else. Modern civilization made them materialistic, made them concentrate their thoughts upon their bodies and upon the means of multiplying bodily comforts. Herbert Spencer had summed up the modern man by saying that the civilized man led a complex life as opposed to the entirely simple life of the savage. The source from which the Asiatic trouble arose in the Transvaal was that the Asiatic's wants were very simple, whereas those of the European were complex and therefore expensive. The tendency of modern methods went to make the Native's life more complex. While the wants of the raw Native were easily satisfied, the more enlightened of them required many more embellishments. Thus, they required more money, and when they found they could not get it honestly, they resorted to dishonesty.