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science and modernism only helped to intensify the savagery of fratricidal combat.
Let the people of Asia profit by the lessons which their brothers in the West have to teach us. Truth and freedom are for all, and we shall be proud to accept the gifts of modern Western Science adapting them to the needs of our national genius, our special traditions and circumstances. India is on her path to self-realisation; she cannot afford to waste her priceless spiritual and intellectual resources in enforced emulation of ready-made ideals from outside; she must evolve her own civilization unhampered by her dead past or her modern political servitude. My visit to Persia has given me faith in the power of the Eastern peoples to assert themselves and quickly find their way to a united manifestation of their undying heritage in spite of conflict and difficult economic circumstances.
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