ABSTRACT
The question has been asked whether Mahatma Gandhi’s influence is mainly political, or whether it is moral and social at the same time.
It is impossible to draw these sharp distinctions when one listens to his simple dramatic talks with the villagers. He is always practical, and never says a word too much. He is also a born teacher of simple, unso phisticated people. Let me take a typical instance, such as I have frequently witnessed. It may be that, when the village audience is very primitive and the crowd is immense, he will take his hand with its five fingers and its wrist. He will compare it to five branches coming out from the trunk of a tree, or some such parallel, and then he will begin his lesson.
