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your household or lord It over them. You can thus
utilize trifling little occasions in everyday life to cultivate
.non-violence in your own person and teach it to your
•children."
He took another instance. Suppose somebody hit
their child with a stone. Usually the Pathan tells his
•child not to return home to whine but to answer back with
a bigger stone. But a votary of non-violence, said Gan-
dhiji, would tell his child not to meet a stone by a stone
but by embracing the boy who threw the stone and
making friends with him. " The same formula, i. e., to
banish anger completely from the heart and to make
•everybody into one's friend, is indeed enough to win India
lier Independence," he concluded. " It is the surest and
the quickest way, too, and it is my claim that for winning
Independence for the poor masses of India, it is the only
-way."