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FRAQMENTS OF A PRISONER'S DIARY depravity, but to find a safeguard for the bowls of milk belonging to men. Safeguard is not an invention of the British gentlemen who composed the Government of India Act, 1935. It has been the basic institution of human society ever since it came to be based upon the privilege for the few at the cost of the many.
Besides, you are so blinded by the anxiety to protect the privilcges of your race, that you set up a moral doctrine which strikes at the root of all morals which is religion. If it were sinful to eat when hungry, God would have made animals differently--without stomachs. Hunger is, therefore, God-given. To satisfy it is to obey the law of Providence. To starve rather than to steal the milk, which would most probably never be given voluntarily, therefore, does not constitute a virtueof self-control ; it is committing the sacrilege of proposing to make the world better than God has created it. This amounts to a denial of God. Because, if you really belicve in God, you can never think that things could be otherwise or better than made by him. Any such thought implies atheism and strikes at the root of dogmatic ethics which has kept the human race enslaved through ages. Unless there is some super-natural standard, there can be no authority for the absoluteness of concepts represented by such terms as truth, justice,
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As regards the other moral virtue-sacrifice,
