“This book is intended to explain, with documentary evidence, the main principles and ideas for which Mahatma Gandhi has stood in the course of his eventful career. On account of the mass of the material available, it has been necessary to choose at my own discretion from the speeches and writings which he himself has addressed to the public. I have carefully avoided, in the work of selecting, consulting beforehand the opinions of other writers about him, because I feel it best to give entire the one single personal impression that has become clear to my own mind from long and intimate personal experience.