“ Too often do we believe that material prosperity means moral growth. ”
Mahatma Gandhi, Third Class in Indian railways (1917). copy citation
| Author | Mahatma Gandhi |
|---|---|
| Source | Third Class in Indian railways |
| Topic | growth prosperity |
| Date | 1917 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Third_Class_in_Indian_Railways#Vernacular... |
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“Facility for obtaining loans at fair rates will not make immoral men moral. But the wisdom of the Estate or philanthropists demands that they should help on the onward path, men struggling to be good.
Too often do we believe that material prosperity means moral growth. It is necessary that a movement which is fraught with so much good to India should not degenerate into one for merely advancing cheap loans. I was therefore delighted to read the recommendation in the Report of the Committee on Co-operation in India, that "they wish clearly to express their opinion that it is to true”
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