“A Light Upon His Name”

I know but little of India except through her art. And since I feel that without studying her political problems at first hand in the country itself one cannot form a judgment of any value upon the thorny tangle they seem to present, I could not presume to say anything of Mr. Gandhi’s political career. I dare say that I might not be able to follow him in the details of his policy; but in a time which history will surely record as in many ways a disgrace to mankind, I feel more strongly every day that it is the things of the mind and the things of the spirit, and what flows from them into the active life, that matter more than anything for this shaken and distracted world; it is for these central, permanent things that, as I conceive, Mr. Gandhi stands, and because of this there is a light upon his name.