Therefore there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only
under that law would well-ordered society be intelligible and life
worth living.
If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily existence.
Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent,
conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has
answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.
In India we have had an ocular demonstration of the operation of
this law on the widest scale possible. I don't claim that nonviolence
has penetrated the 360,000,000 people in India, but I do claim
it has penetrated deeper than any other doctrine in an incredibly
short time.
It takes a fairly strenuous course of training to attain a mental
state of nonviolence. It is a disciplined life, like the life of
a soldier. The perfect state is reached only when the mind, body,
and speech are in proper coordination. Every problem would lend
itself to solution if we determined to make the law of truth and
nonviolence the law of life.
Just as a scientist will work wonders out of various applications
of the laws of nature, a man who applies the laws of love with
scientific precision can work greater wonders. Nonviolence is
infinitely more wonderful and subtle than forces of nature like,
for instance, electricity. The law of love is a far greater science
than any modern science.
Consulting history, one may reasonably state that the problems of
mankind have not been solved by the use of brute force.
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