734 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
The second calamity which overtook the Jews was the Babylonian Captivity. (Some pages are missing—ed.)
We can now explain why the Untouchables have suffered frustration. They have no plus condition of body and mind. They have nothing in their dull drab deadening past for a hope of a rise in the future to feed upon. This is due to no fault of theirs. The frustration which is their fate is the result of the unpropitious social environment born out of the Hindu Social Order which is so deadly inimical to their progress.
Their fate is entirely unbearable. As Carlyle has said—
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Some are thinking of revolutions, even bloody revolutions to overthrow the Hindu Social Order. All are saying what Cabli Williams once said—
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Such is the degree of frustration they feel
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The Covenant with God may be interpreted to mean in the language of Emerson a plus condition of mind and body. As Emerson has said “Success is constitutional- depends on a plus condition of mind and body—on power of work—on courage. Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power : An ounce of Power must balance an ounce of weight.”
If the Jews rose after their first captivity, it was primarily because of their plus condition of mind and body. This plus condition of mind and body can arise from two sources. It can arise from reliance on God. God, if nothing else is at least a source of power and in emergency man needs mental power, the plus condition of
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