Romain guyot biography of mahatma

Mahatma Gandhi by Romain Rolland, Translated by Catherine D. Groth. New York: The Century Co,

There has always been an abyss between the life, and the thought and the ideals of the eastern and the western civilizations.

It has grown wider with the passing of the centuries.

Romain guyot biography of mahatma gandhi

The material conflict between the East and the West--the first reaching out of the tendrils of empire on the one side, and the quiet acceptance of the inevitable, in appearance, at least, on the other--has only emphasized the space that still separates the ideas of the two.

The abyss has seemed unbridgeable.

But Romain Rolland has lately written a biography which interprets the spirit of the East in terms of Western ideas. He has described the life and teachings of the man "who has introduced into human politics the strongest religious impetus of the last two thousand years." He has expounded the religion of Mahatma Gandhi, and has made it clear, logical, plausible to wester