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<font size="4">The
Right of Absolute Freedom</font></b><font size="4"><BR>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">A NATION cannot claim the right, even in the name of
freedom, to do as it pleases. An individual has not that right, the
nation too has not. A nation is a member of humanity, there are other
members and there is the common welfare of all. A nation by choosing
a particular line of action, in asserting its absolute freedom, may
go against other nations, or against the general good. Such freedom
has to be curbed and controlled. Collective life – if one does not
propose to live the life of the solitary – the animal or the saint
– is nothing if not such a system of controls. &quot;The whole of
politics is an interference with personal liberty. Law is such an
interference; protection is such an interference; the rule which
makes the will of the majority prevail is such an interference. The
right to prevent such use of personal liberty as will injure the
interests of the race is the fundamental law of society. From this
point of view the nation is only using its primary rights when it
restrains the individual from buying or selling foreign goods.&quot;
Thus spoke a great Nationalist leader in the days of Boycott and
Swadeshi. What is said here of the individual can be said of the
nation too in relation to the greater good of humanity. The ideal of
a nation or state supreme all by itself, with rights that none can
challenge, inevitably leads to the cult of the Super-state, the
Master-race. If such a monster is not to be tolerated, the only way
left is to limit the absolute value of nationhood, to view a nation
only as a member in a comity of nations forming the humanity at
large.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">A nation not free, still in bondage, cannot likewise
justify its claim to absolute freedom by all or any means, at all
times, in all circumstances. There are times and circumstances when
even an enslaved nation has to bide its time. Man, in order to 
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">assert
his freedom and individuality, cannot sign a pact with
Mephistopheles; if he does so he must be prepared for the
consequences. The same truth holds with regard to the nation. A
greater danger may attend a nation than the loss of freedom – the
life and soul of humanity itself may be in imminent peril. Such a
cataclysmic danger mankind has just passed through or is still
passing through. All nations, however circumstanced in the old world,
who have stood and fought on the side of humanity, by that very
gesture, have acquired the right –and the might too, – to gain
freedom and greatness and all good things which would not be possible
otherwise.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">Within the nation all communities must be ready to give
and take and settle down amicably. Within humanity too all nations
must live the same principle. The days of free competition must be
considered as gone for good; instead the rule of collaboration and
co-operation has to be adopted (even between past enemies and
rivals). In mutual aid and self-limitation lie also the growth and
fulfilment of each collective individuality. That is the great Law of
Sacrifice enunciated ages ago by Sri Krishna in the Gita-&quot;By
increasing each other all will attain the </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">Summum Bonum.&quot;</span></I></P>
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