From your letter and the articles in __Free Hindustan__ as well
as from the very interesting writings of the Hindu Swami
Vivekananda and others, it appears that, as is the case in our
time with the ills of all nations, the reason lies in the lack of
a reasonable religious teaching which by explaining the meaning
of life would supply a supreme law for the guidance of conduct
and would replace the more than dubious precepts of pseudo-
religion and pseudo-science with the immoral conclusions deduced
from them and commonly called 'civilization'.

Your letter, as well as the articles in __Free Hindustan__ and
Indian political literature generally, shows that most of the
leaders of public opinion among your people no longer attach any
significance to the religious teachings that were and are
professed by the peoples of India, and recognize no possibility
of freeing the people from the oppression they endure except by
adopting the irreligious and profoundly immoral social
arrangements under which the English and other pseudo-Christian
nations live to-day.

And yet the chief if not the sole cause of the enslavement of the
Indian peoples by the English lies in this very absence of a
religious consciousness and of the guidance for conduct which
should flow from it--a lack common in our day to all nations East
and West, from Japan to England and America alike.



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