{"product_id":"the-wheel-of-fortune-gb-41954","title":"The Wheel of Fortune","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Wheel of Fortune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author often uses the South Asian numbering system where, besides the three\r\nleast significant digits of the integer part, a comma divides every two\r\nrather than every three digits (for example 10,00,000 instead of\r\n1,000,000). All corrections are underlined with a dotted line. The original text appears\r\nwhen hovering the cursor over the marked text. Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling have not been corrected. A list of corrections to the text can be found at the end\r\nof the document.\nMany critics and some friends of\r\nMahatma Gandhi have found fault with\r\nhis desire to introduce simpler methods of\r\nspinning and weaving and to do away with\r\nmuch of the complicated machinery of\r\nModern Civilisation. The reason why they\r\nobject is that they fear such methods mean\r\nnot progress towards a higher state but\r\nrelapse into a primitive condition of civilisation\r\nor even of barbarism. His denunciation\r\nof the age of machinery and of the\r\nIndustrial System has been criticised by\r\nmany as the ravings of a visionary and of\r\none who is merely an impracticable idealist.\r\nThis is a strange criticism to come from\r\nthose who give their allegiance to a form\r\nof civilisation or 'Culture' which has led\r\nto the unprecedented horrors of the late\r\nEuropean War and the century-old disgraces\r\n[pg x]\r\nof the Industrial System. Is this\r\npresent modern civilisation so very desirable\r\nthat we should wish it to continue in perpetuity?\r\nEvery civilisation in the History\r\nof Man has reached a certain point after\r\nwhich there has been one possibility only\r\nfor it and that was absolute relapse into\r\nsemi-darkness in order to give place to a new\r\nand higher civilisation. The common starting\r\npoint of all the civilisations is a kind\r\nof night-time. In order that the Babylonian\r\n(or Despotic) Civilisation might give\r\nway to the Roman (or Heroic), and the\r\nRoman give way to the Modern (or Intellectual)\r\nCivilisation, it was necessary for\r\neach in turn to sink completely into this\r\ncommon night-time. Without this entire\r\ndestruction of the ancient structure, there\r\nwould have been only a patchwork of the\r\nold, and not a harmonious building of the\r\nNew. As Christ said: \"Ye cannot put old\r\nwine into new bottles.\" The debris of the\r\nPast has to be cleared away in order to make\r\nway for the structure of the Future. Now\r\nwith regard to Modern Civilisation, all the\r\nsigns of the times show that it has failed\r\n[pg xi]\r\nlamentably and is gradually tottering to a\r\ndishonoured grave. Why make any attempts\r\nto prop up what Nature so evidently has\r\ndecided to throw on the scrap-heap? Such\r\nattempts are contrary to the teaching of\r\npast history. But anything, which tends\r\nto reach the common roots of all civilisations,\r\nshould be encouraged. In order that\r\nthe spiritual civilisation of the Future\r\nmay have a real chance of growing in an\r\natmosphere congenial to it, Mahatma\r\nGandhi's demonstration of the right path\r\nshould be welcomed. His emphasis on\r\nsimplicity of life and on the simplification\r\nof the machinery of living must be realised\r\nas a supremely essential condition of the\r\ncoming of the new Era. In the civilisation\r\nof the Future, an Era of natural harmonious\r\nliving will be inaugurated, and artificial,\r\nluxurious and pompous living will be\r\nentirely rooted out.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 41954 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Gandhi, Mahatma \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 31, 2013 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Gandhi, Mahatma,1869-1948 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43221332983965,"sku":"gb-41954-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/41954.jpg?v=1671592124","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-wheel-of-fortune-gb-41954","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}