Pray remember this too, that we did not cease to fight only after British occupation. The Hindu flourished under Moslem sovereigns and Moslems under the Hindu. Each party reconciled that mutual fighting was suicidal, and that neither party would abandon its religion by force of arms. Both parties, therefore, decided to live in peace. With the English advent quarrels recommenced.
Religions are different roads converging to the same point.
No instance seems to have happened of any nation having risen through soul-force. I still think that the evil-doers will not cease doing evil without physical punishment. Therefore we should not abandon pity so long as we are alive. This appears to me to be a scientific truth. I believe in it as much as I believe in two and two being four.