The larger a democracy grows, the less real becomes the rule of the people and the smaller the say of individuals and localized groups in deciding their own destinies. Moreover love, and affection are essentially personal relationships. Consequently, it is only in small groups that Charity, in the Pauline sense of the word, can manifest itself. In a large, undifferentiated group, the possibility does not even exist, for the simple reason that most of its members cannot, in the nature of things, have personal re lations with one another. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love.
Charity is at once the means and the end of spirituality.
A social organization, so contrived that, over a large field of human activity, it makes the manifestation of Charity impossible, is obviously a bad or ganization. Decentralization in economics must go hand in hand with decentralization in politics. Individuals, families and small co-operative groups should own the land and instru ments necessary for their own subsistence and for supply ing a local market. Among these necessary instruments of production, Gandhi wished to include only hand tools. The making of these power-driven machines would, of course, require to be carried out in large, highly specialized factories.