Gandhi quote

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>Also there may be things attributed to Gandhi that are unsubstantiated. For

>example, his quote(very popular in the West), " " The greatness of a

>*nation*and its *moral progress can be judged* by the way its

>*animals are treated.* "

 

 

Jon Wynne-Tyson in The Extended Circle: A Commonplace Book

of Animal Rights, sources that quote only to " The Moral Basis of

Vegetarianism. "

 

In 2003 I tried unsuccessfully to track it to a specific source.

 

I learned that Gandhi wrote many different articles and

several short books of essentially the same title, summarizing the

same arguments in different ways, & also delivered many hundreds of

lectures and speeches of the same title -- dozens, for example,

within a matter of days of each other, when he visited England circa

1936.

 

Gandhi also gave discussed " The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism "

in innumerable news interviews. This was apparently among his

favorite topics for at least 30 years, probably longer.

 

I did not find the exact quote in any of the examples and

reportage of Gandhi's speaking that I found. However, Gandhi

certainly talked all around this idea time & again, & probably did

use very nearly those words, if not exactly those words, at least

once.

 

After all, there are only so many ways to phrase a thought,

and the thought clearly was on his mind.

 

 

 

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