Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 8069

Poor X! But he is a politician and the rationality of politicians has perforce to move within limits: if they were to allow themselves to be as clear-minded as that, their occupation would be gone! It is not everybody who can be as cynical as a Birkenhead or as philosophical as a C. R. Das and go on with political reason or political humbug in spite of knowing what it all came to from arrivisme in the one and patriotism in the other case.