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xvii That non-violence and love is the heart and soul of freedom and of all major moral and religious values. That at this present, catastrophic moment of human history an increased production, accumulation and circulation of love, energy or non-violence among persons, groups, institutions and cultures is a necessary condition for the prevention of new wars and for the alleviation of the enormously increased
human strife. These conclusions are still little known or accepted by the world.
I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to the well-known and erudite scholar, Dr. A. N. Upadhye, Head of the Department of Jainology at Mysore University, for his General Editorial to this treatise. I am also grateful to Donald H. Bishop, Professor of Philosophy in the College of Sciences and Arts, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, U.S. A. for the extensive editing of this volume and for allowing me to use the contents of his essay, “The Presuppositions of Nonviolence" published in the January 1972 issue of the Journal Gandhi Marg. It is incorporated in the third Chapter of this treatise.
I cannot close without acknowledging the valuable co-operation and assistance given by my grandson Dr. Rajendrakumar Kothari, M.B.B.S., and Shri A. B. Pandit, B.A., LL.B., Advocate, Gulbarga.
V. P. Kothari
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