The Story of My Experiments with Truth Part 4, Chapter 18 Summary

The Magic Spell of a Book

  • Gandhi falls in love with the book Unto This Last by Ruskin.
  • He reads it and becomes an instant convert to its message that the good of the individual is contained in the good of all, that all have the same right of earning their livelihood from their work, and that a life of labor—tilling the soil and handicraft—is the best kind of life.
  • He later translates the book into Gujarati.