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<b><font size="4">The Way to Unity</font></b></p>
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<FONT SIZE=3>COMMON love, common labour and, above all, as the great
French thinker, Ernest Renan,* pointed out, common suf&shy;fering –
that is the cement which welds together the disparate elements of a
nation-a nation is not formed otherwise. A nation means peoples
differing in race and religion, caste and creed and even language,
fused together into a composite but indivisible unit. Not pact nor
balancing of interests nor sharing of power and profit can
permanently combine and unify conflicting groups and collectivities.
Hindus and Muslims, the two major sections that are at loggerheads
today in India, must be given a field, indeed more than one field,
where they can, work together; they must be made to come in contact
with each other, to coalesce and dovetail into each other in as many
ways and directions as possible. Instead of keeping them separate in
water-tight compartments, in barred cages, as it were, lest they
pounce upon each other like wild beasts, it would be wiser to throw
them together; let them breathe the same air, live the same life,
share the same troubles, the same difficulties, solve the same
problems. That is how they</FONT></P>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;">*&quot;Dans le pass&eacute;, un h&eacute;ritage de
gloire et de regrets &aacute; partager, dans l'avenir un m&ecirc;me
programme &agrave; r&eacute;aliser; avoir souffert, joui, esp&eacute;r&eacute;
ensemble, voil&agrave; ce qui vaut mieux que des douanes communes et
des fronti&eacute;res conformes aux id&eacute;es strat&eacute;giques:
voil&agrave; ce que l'on comprend malgr&eacute; leg diversit&eacute;s
de race et de langue. Je disais tout &agrave; l'heure: &quot;avoir
souffert ensemble&quot;; oui, la souffrance en commun unit plus que
la joie. En fait de souvenirs nationaux, les deuils valent mieux que
leg triomphes.. . &quot;</span></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><I>Ernest Renan: &quot;Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?&quot;</I></FONT></p>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=3>Translation: &quot;In the past a heritage of glory and
regrets to share, in the future the same programme to realise; to
have suffered, enjoyed, hoped together, that indeed is better than
common customs and strategic frontiers; that is what one understands
in spite of diversities of race and language. I said just now: &quot;to
have suffered together&quot;; yes, common suffering unites more than
common joy. In respect of the memories of a nation griefs are worth
more than triumphs. . . . &quot;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><I>Ernest Renan: &quot;What </I>is <I>a nation?&quot;</I></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Page – 94</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>will
best understand, appreciate and even love each other, become comrades
and companions, not rivals and opponents.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>To have union, one must unite – division can never
lead to unity. Also this unity is established automatically and
irrevo&shy;cably, not by any abstract sense of justice and equality,
nor by any romantic or imaginative feeling of fraternity, but by a
dynamic <I>living together. </I>A common political and civic and
economic life creates a field of force that can draw together into a
harmonious working the most contrary and refractory elements.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>We have said, however, time and again, that the present
war is a great opportunity offered by Nature and Providence,
opportunity that comes only once in a way; it is precisely the field
of which we speak, the field <I><FONT FACE="Arial Narrow, sans-serif">par
</FONT>excellence, </I>which can compel all centrifugal elements to
come together, labour together, enjoy and suffer together and turn
and transmute them into the very strongest centripetal components.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Page – 95</FONT></P>
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