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it is, must be, always to his heart. The satyagrahi's object
is to convert, not to coerce, the wrong-doer. He should
avoid artificiality in all his doings. He acts naturally and
from inward conviction.
42. The very nature of the science of Satyagraha
precludes the student from seeing more than the step
immediately in front of him.
43. A satyagrahi must never forget the distinction
between evil and the evil-doer. He must not harbour ill-
will or bitterness against the latter. He may not even
employ needlessly offensive language against the evil
•person, however unrelieved his evil might be.^ For it is
an article of faith "with every satyagrahi that there is no
one so fallen in this world but can be converted by love.
.A satyagrahi will always try to overcome evil by good,
anger by love, untruth by truth, himsa by ahimsa. There
is no other way of purging the world of evil
"Weapon of Non-co-operation
44. Non-co-operation with evil is as much a duty as
-co-operation with good.
45. When we are firmly of opinion that grave wrong
has been done to us and when after an appeal to the
highest authority we fail to secure redress, there must be
some power available to us for undoing the wrong.
46. We must refuse to wait for the wrong to be
righted till the wrong-doer has been roused to a sense of
his iniquity. But we must combat the wrong by ceasing
to assist the wrong-doer directly or indirectly.
47. The business of every God-fearing man is to
dissociate himself from evil in total disregard of conse-
quences.
48. Non-co-operation predominantly implies with-
drawing of co-operation from the State that in the
non-co-operator's view has become corrupt, and excludes
Civil Disobedience of the fierce type. By its very nature,
non-co-operation is even open to children of understanding
and can be safely practised by the masses. Non-co-opera-
tlon too, like Civil Disobedience, is a branch of Satyagraha