He spoke of Tolstoy’s fearlessness at the age of eighty, as manifest in his continuing criticisms of the Russian state. He quoted passages from Tolstoy’s writings chastising ‘those who oppress, imprison or hang thousands of men’, and which dared ‘the tyrannical officers’ to arrest him. A man who can write this, who has such thoughts and can act up to them has mastered the world, has conquered suffering and achieved his life’s end. True freedom is to be found only in such a life. That is the kind of freedom we want to achieve in the Transvaal. If India were to achieve such freedom, that indeed
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