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a matter of frce will makes him or her revolt against the tyranny of the God or scriptural injunctions.
Gandhist morality is admittedly a bunch of doginas. In order to be moral, one niust be truthful. One abstraction is referred back to another. Unless we are given a clear criterion of truth, this sort of morality remains an undefined virtue. Then, continence. If that is essential for a virtuous life, why did not God inake us all aphrodites ? In that case, continence would be natural to all, ardzhe world would be populated with a tribe of virtuous and godly beings. But it scems that the Maker's acsthetic sense revolted against the idea of such a monstrosity, and he preferred to make “sinfulness” inherent in ihe nature of man. Thcresorc, it is a bold, indeed sacrilegious, assertion that without continence a man or woman is undone.
The fallacy of Gandhi's moral doctrine is thus exposed in the light of its own standards. Empirically, it appears to be even more monstrous. Are the higher type of men and women of Europe morally and intellectually any worse than Indians? Moreover, Gandhi regrets that the Indians also do not practice continence. Well, then, you are preaching an unattainable ideal, which is a physical impossibility. It is idle to spin out volumes, and pester people with boring scrmons, when there are morc practical tasks to be accomplished and more reliable goals to strive for. As a matter of fact, 118
