Talk:Unto This Last
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I made some changes to the original posting.
The original post:
Gandhi's paraphrase[edit]
Unto This Last had a very important impact on Gandhi's philosophy. He discovered the book in March 1904 through Henry Polak, who he had met in a vegetarian restaurant in South Africa. Polak was chief editor of the Johannesburg paper The Critic. Gandhi decided immediately not only to change his own life according to Ruskin's teaching, but also to publish his own newspaper, Indian Opinion, in a farm where everybody would get the same salary, without distinction of function, race or nationality, which for that time, was quite revolutionary. Thus Gandhi created Phoenix Settlement.
Gandhi adapted Unto This Last in Gujarati in 1908 under the title of Sarvodaya ("well being of all"). It is also the name he gave to his philosophy. Valji Govindji Desai translated it back to English in 1951 under the title of Unto This Last: A Paraphrase.
In Unto This Last, Gandhi found an important part of his social and economic ideas. Ruskin was concerned with the same problems and proposed the same solutions as Gandhi's own.
Changes:
1. some minor grammar. 2. The name that Gandhi gave to his philosophy is Satyagraha, and not the stated Sarvodaya. Gandhi's philosophy of Satyagraha is combination word deriving from Sanskrit meaning the force of truth. (graha=force; sat=truth). 3. In the final paragraph, I took out the final sentence because (1) I am not sure that "same" is appropriate; and (2) because it doesn't seem necessary. JSteinbeck2 (talk) 16:54, 9 January 2008 (UTC)