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Thousands of people in every nation are eagerly watching Gandhi’s great experiment in India. It may be his seizure of the moral initiative, his courageous endurance of suffering, the news interest in his tactical surprises and untried maneuvers, which create such a high degree of suggestibility in the spectators; but it is as if Gandhi at the present moment, as Tolstoy before him, had given a ‘suggestion’ needed to free the pent-up energies of good will among men.
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The Christian Century 48 (25 November 1931): 321–326. Copyright © 1931 by the Christian Century. Reprinted by permission from the 25 November, 1931, issue of the Christian Century. www.christiancentury.org.
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Shields, P.M. (2017). Tolstoy and Gandhi (1931). In: Shields, P. (eds) Jane Addams: Progressive Pioneer of Peace, Philosophy, Sociology, Social Work and Public Administration. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50646-3_15
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