A Letter to a Hindu
A Letter to a Hindu
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__ THE HINDU KURAL.
Thus it went on everywhere. The recognition that love representsthe highest morality was nowhere denied or contradicted, but thistruth was so interwoven everywhere with all kinds of falsehoodswhich distorted it, that finally nothing of it remained butwords. It was taught that this highest morality was onlyapplicable to private life--for home use, as it were--but that inpublic life all forms of violence--such as imprisonment, executions, and wars--might be used for the protec...tion of themajority against a minority of evildoers, though such means werediametrically opposed to any vestige of love. And though commonsense indicated that if some men claim to decide who is to besubjected to violence of all kinds for the benefit of others, these men to whom violence is applied may, in turn, arrive at asimilar conclusion with regard to those who have employedviolence to them, and though the great religious teachers ofBrahmanism, Buddhism, and above all of Christianity, foreseeingsuch a perversion of the law of love, have constantly drawnattention to the one invariable condition of love (namely, theenduring of injuries, insults, and violence of all kinds withoutresisting evil by evil) people continued--regardless of all thatleads man forward--to try to unite the incompatibles: the virtueof love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining ofevil by violence.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
__ THE HINDU KURAL.
Thus it went on everywhere. The recognition that love representsthe highest morality was nowhere denied or contradicted, but thistruth was so interwoven everywhere with all kinds of falsehoodswhich distorted it, that finally nothing of it remained butwords. It was taught that this highest morality was onlyapplicable to private life--for home use, as it were--but that inpublic life all forms of violence--such as imprisonment, executions, and wars--might be used for the protec...tion of themajority against a minority of evildoers, though such means werediametrically opposed to any vestige of love. And though commonsense indicated that if some men claim to decide who is to besubjected to violence of all kinds for the benefit of others, these men to whom violence is applied may, in turn, arrive at asimilar conclusion with regard to those who have employedviolence to them, and though the great religious teachers ofBrahmanism, Buddhism, and above all of Christianity, foreseeingsuch a perversion of the law of love, have constantly drawnattention to the one invariable condition of love (namely, theenduring of injuries, insults, and violence of all kinds withoutresisting evil by evil) people continued--regardless of all thatleads man forward--to try to unite the incompatibles: the virtueof love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining ofevil by violence.
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