The effective League of Nations will be a natural, nameless league
of human hearts. The broad sympathies and discerning insight needed
for the healing of earthly woes cannot flow from a mere intellectual
consideration of man's diversities, but from knowledge of man's
sole unity-his kinship with God. Toward realization of the world's
highest ideal-peace through brotherhood-may yoga, the science of
personal contact with the Divine, spread in time to all men in all
lands.
Though India's civilization is ancient above any other, few historians
have noted that her feat of national survival is by no means an
accident, but a logical incident in the devotion to eternal verities
which India has offered through her best men in every generation.
By sheer continuity of being, by intransitivity before the ages-can
dusty scholars truly tell us how many?-India has given the worthiest
answer of any people to the challenge of time.
The Biblical story {FN32-5} of Abraham's plea to the Lord that the
city of Sodom be spared if ten righteous men could be found therein,
and the divine reply: "I will not destroy it for ten's sake,"
gains new meaning in the light of India's escape from the oblivion
of Babylon, Egypt and other mighty nations who were once her
contemporaries. The Lord's answer clearly shows that a land lives,
not by its material achievements, but in its masterpieces of man.
Let the divine words be heard again, in this twentieth century,
twice dyed in blood ere half over: No nation that can produce ten
men, great in the eyes of the Unbribable Judge, shall know extinction.
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