Mahatma Gandhi: His Views on Man and Machinery

Gandhiji was not a visionary but a practical idealist. He was an accuratestudent of human nature having studied it in all its shades. His intensive tours of India and intimate contact with the people helped him to understand human nature in its right perspective. He was concerned with human nature not only as it was but also it could be trained and moulded. He did not believe that man was all good or an angel.He admitted that every one of us was a mixture of good and evil. The difference was only one of degree. He admitted the animal ancestry of man.