"THE world is too much with us" and we have thought of khadi in terms of utility of economics and politics. But this has not prevented the thoughtful and the morally sensitive from feeling that the spinning wheel represents a moral and spiritual re-valuation. As long as the present individualistic and wasteful production and distribution of necessary and unnecessary goods continues, the purchaser, if he is spiritually alive, must feel the moral value of purchasing his goods from sources untainted by sweating and exploitation. The indifferent to such considerations may not necessarily be morally guilty or sinful, but the thought cannot be avoided that they need a quickening of their conscience by right moral and intellectual education. Such an education is placed before the public by Fr. Elwin in this little pamphlet.
For this task he is eminently fitted. Whatever he writes from his personal realisations, and his realisations are due to the fact that he approaches new things and thoughts in the spirit of sympathy and charity. Those who know him know that, like C. F. Andrews, he is one of those rare spirits, who bend the knee wherever the knee is bent, in worshipful prayer. The Anteryamin the, knower of all from within, knows that all worship is meant for Him. Guided by this catholic spirit, the writer has readily appreciated, and made his own the music of the spinning wheel. He has understood the philosophy underlying it and accepted the novel but just re-valuations. He has therefore succeeded in elaborating upon what is given in the form of Sutras in Gandhiji's writings.
The reader, if he wants to appreciate the pamphlet, must bring with himself the sympathy, the faith, the will, to believe that the author has brought to bear upon his subject. Failing that, he will only be confirmed, in his pre-conceived moral and intellectual vanities. He will only see in things Divine the usual sentimental stuff.
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