THE DEEPEK MEANING OF THE STRUGGLE. 3

«But certain ones have seized upon the plots of others, and
.attempted to replace the plants natural to those plots,
with others more acceptable or profitable to themselves.
We have not to consider only the displaced gardeners, who
naturally do not admire and are not grateful for the
changes introduced into their plots; but to ask whether
these proceedings are beneficial to the owner of the garden,
for whom the gardeners work. Who is this owner but the
Folk of the World of the future, which is ever becoming
the present ? Shall they be glad or sorry if uniformity
has replaced diversity, if but one type of vegetation is to be
found within their garden, flourishing perhaps in one
part, but sickly in another ; what of the flowers that might
have flourished in that other part had they not been swept
.away ?

The world has progressed from the idea of individual
slavery to thai; of individual freedom ; it has become an
instinct to believe that men are equal at least to this
degree, that every man must be regarded as an end in
himself ; but progress is only now being made from the
idea of national slavery (Empire) to that of national free-
.dom (Internationalism). The dominant nations have to
learn that nations no less than men are ends in themselves.
They have yet to realise that a nation can no more ulti-
mately justify the ownership of other nations, than a man
can justify the ownership of other men ; and that it is not
by the withdrawal of responsibility that character is
-strengthened.

Many of the difficulties that beset the path of Indian
nationality are real. The one thing strange to us is the
-delight with which they are insisted on, as though the
possibility of an Indian nation, conscious of its past, and
led by hope of days to come, were in itself an evil thing.