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The Untouchables are the wea rest, most loathed and the most miserable people that history can witness. They are a spent and sacrificed people. To use the language of Shelley they are:
Pale for weariness of climbing heaven, and gazing on earth, wandering companionless.
Among the stars that have a different birth.
To put it in simple language the Untouchables have been completely overtaken by a sense of utter frustration. As Mathew Arnold says:
Life consists in the effort to affirm one’s own essence; meaning by this, to develop one’s existence fully and freely, to have ample light and air to be neither… nor over shadowed. Failure to affirm one’s own essence is simply another name for frustration. its nonfulfillment of one’s efforts to do the best, the with erring of one’s faculties, the stunting of one’s personality.
Only people in the world: Many people suffer such frustrations in their history. But they soon re-cover from the blight and rise to glory again with new vibrations.
The case of the Untouchables stands on a different footing. Their frustration is frustration for ever. It is unrelieved by space or time.
In this respect the story of the Untouchables stands in strange contrast with that of the Jews. Their captivity in Egypt was the first calamity that visited Jewish people.
Ultimately Pharaoh yielded. The Jewish people escaped captivity and went to Cannan and settled there in the land flowing with milk and honey. The second calamity which overtook the Jews was the Babylonian Captivity.
Hindu social order: We can now explain why the Untouchables have suffered frustration. They have no plus condition of body and mind. They have nothing in their dull drab deadening past for a hope of a rise in the future to feed upon. This is due to no fault of theirs. The frustration which is their fate is the result of the un propitious social environment born out of the Hindu Social Or der which is so deadly inimical to their progress.
Their fate is entirely unbearable. Some are thinking of revolutions, even bloody revolutions to over throw the Hindu Social Order. Such is the degree of frustration they feel. How Jews got liberated: The Covenant with God may inter pretend to mean in the language of Emerson plus condition of mind and body. As Emerson has said:
Success is constitutional de pends on a plus condition of mind and body on power of work on courage. Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power. An ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
If the Jews rose after their first captivity, it was primarily because of their plus condition of mind and body. This plus condition of mind and body can arise from two sources. It can arise from reliance on God. God if nothing else is at least a source of power and in emergency man needs mental power, the plus condition of mind and body which is necessary for success. There is therefore nothing wrong in the suggestion that the Jews succeeded because of their Covenant of God if it is interpreted in the right way.
This plus condition of body and mind is also the result of Social Environment, if the Environment is propitious. In a society where there is exemption from restraint, a secured release from obstruction, in a society where every man is entitled not only to the means of being, but also of wellbeing, where no man is forced to labour so that another er may abound in luxuries, where no man is deprived of his right to cultivate his faculties and powers so that there may be no competition with the favoured, where there is emphasis of reward by mento, where there is goodwill towards all, (Further portion of this part is erased and not Legible ed.).
