"Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because "friends react on one another" and through loyalty to a friend one can be led into wrong-doing. This is unquestionably true. Moreover, if one is to love God, or to love humanity as a whole, one cannot give one's preference to any individual person. This again is true, and it marks the point at which the humanistic and the religious attitude cease to be reconcilable. To an ordinary …showed first 75 words of 1380 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1380 total…the readers ear because we all know that we are not perfect, we all have our flaws. With the very selective details of Gandhi's life given to the reader and the very persuasive rebuttals of Orwell it is hard to believe anyone could read this passage without even casting the smallest doubt on the choices and beliefs of Gandhi. I only wish that Gandhi were alive today to write his own rebuttal to this argument.