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Rabindranath Tagore, the great novelist and poet laureate,

admired Gandhi for the moral force which he represented,

but he condemned the element of negation

contained in the noncooperation movement.

From Europe Tagore expressed his anxiety to friends in India

and three of his letters appeared in the Modern Review.

'It is criminal to transform moral force into force,' he wrote.

'Unity is truth, and division evil ...

unity cannot be attained through negation.

The present attempt to sepaate our spirit

from that of Occident is tentative of spiritual suicide...

The present age has been dominated by the Occident,

because the Occident has a mission to fulfil.

We of the Orient should learn from the Occident.

The problem is a world problem.

No nation can find its own salvation by breaking away from others.

We must all be saved or we must all perish together.'

- Yogesh Chadha, Gandhi: a life, John Wiley & Sons (1997), p.252

(Gandhi-045)