So matters went on, and still go on, in the Christian world. But
we might have hope that in the immense Brahman, Buddhist, and
Confucian worlds this new scientific superstition would not
establish itself, and that the Chinese, Japanese, and Hindus,
once their eyes were opened to the religious fraud justifying
violence, would advance directly to a recognition of the law of
love inherent in humanity, and which had been so forcibly
enunciated by the great Eastern teachers. But what has happened
is that the scientific superstition replacing the religious one
has been accepted and secured a stronger and stronger hold in the
East.

In your periodical you set out as the basic principle which
should guide the actions of your people the maxim that:
'Resistance to aggression is not simply justifiable but
imperative, nonresistance hurts both Altruism and Egotism.'

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills, and in it
you too have the only method of saving your people from
enslavement. In very ancient times love was proclaimed with
special strength and clearness among your people to be the
religious basis of human life. Love, and forcible resistance to
evil-doers, involve such a mutual contradiction as to destroy
utterly the whole sense and meaning of the conception of love.
And what follows? With a light heart and in the twentieth century
you, an adherent of a religious people, deny their law, feeling
convinced of your scientific enlightenment and your right to do
so, and you repeat (do not take this amiss) the amazing stupidity
indoctrinated in you by the advocates of the use of violence--the