Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-Malathink that people in their mad rush for everything modern despise all theirancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.WGG, p. 105November 24We have to decide whether we shall indiscriminately copy this civilization. Wemay well pause in the face of the awful revelations that come to us from theWest from time to time, and ask ourselves, whether after all it is not better tohold by our own civilization an seek in the light of the comparative knowledgethat is available to us, to reform it by removing its known excrescences.YI, 2 June 1927November 25It is perhaps unnecessary, if not useless, to weigh the merits of the twocivilizations. It is likely that the West has evolved a civilization suited to itsclimate and surroundings and similarly, we have a civilization suited to ourconditions and both are good in their own respective spheres.YI, 2 June 1927November 26Cowardliness which often springs from pacific training, and obsequiousnesswhich comes from the restraint that is handed down from generation togeneration, have somehow to be avoided , if the ancient civilization is not toperish before the mad modern rush.Ibid.www.mkgandhi.org Page 89