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   THE TRUE PURPOSE OF FREEDOM IN THE WORLD   
      
   Most readers are mere repositories of facts and statements made by other   
   people. But this is not study. The student is to read the facts with a view to   
   create, and not with the objective of fruitless retention.   
      
   Students like satellites should reflect whatever light they receive from   
   authors and not imprison the facts and thoughts just as the Magistrates   
   imprison the convicts in the jail! Thought is progressive. The author’s   
   thought must have progress in the    
   reader in the shape of correction or development. He is the best critic, who   
   can show the further development of an old thought; but a mere denouncer is   
   the enemy of progress and consequently of Nature.   
      
   “Begin anew,” says the shallow critic, because the old masonry does not   
   answer at present. Let the old author be buried because his time is gone.   
   These are shallow expressions. Progress certainly is the law of nature and   
   there must be corrections and    
   developments with the progress of time. But progress means going further or   
   rising higher. Now, if we are to follow our foolish critic, we are to go back   
   to our former terminus and make a new race, and when we have run half the race   
   another critic of his    
   stamp will cry out: “Begin anew, because the wrong road has been taken!”   
   In this way our stupid critics will never allow us to go over the whole road   
   and see what is in the other terminus. Thus the shallow critic and the   
   fruitless reader are the two    
   greatest enemies of progress. We must shun them.   
      
   The true critic, on the other hand, advises us to preserve what we have   
   already obtained, and to adjust our race from that point where we have arrived   
   in the heat of our progress. He will never advise us to go back to the point   
   whence we started, as he    
   fully knows that in that case there will be a fruitless loss of our valuable   
   time and labor. He will direct the adjustment of the angle of the race at the   
   point where we are. This is also the characteristic of the useful student. He   
   will read an old    
   author and will find out his exact position in the progress of thought. He   
   will never propose to burn the book on the ground that it contains thoughts   
   which are useless.   
      
   No thought is useless. Thoughts are means by which, we attain our objects. The   
   reader who denounces a bad thought, does not know that a bad road is even   
   capable of improvement and conversion into a good one. One thought is a road   
   leading to another. Thus    
   the reader will find that one thought which is the object today will be the   
   means of a further object tomorrow. Thoughts will necessarily continue to be   
   an endless series of means and objects in the, progress of humanity. The great   
   reformers will always    
   assert that they have come out not to destroy the old law but to fulfil it.   
   Valmiki, Vyasa, Plato, Jesus, Mahomed, Confucius and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu   
   assert the fact either expressly or by their conduct.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)