(6) My experience of last year shows me that in spite of aberrations in some parts of India, the country was entirely under control that the influence of Satyagraha was profoundly for its good and that where violence did break out there were local causes that directly contributed to it.  At the same time I admit that even the violence that did take place on the part of the people and the spirit of lawlessness that was undoubtedly shown in some parts should have remained under check.  I have made ample acknowledgment of the miscalculation I then made.  But all the painful experience that I then gained did not any way shake my belief in Satyagraha or in the possibility of that matchless force being utilised in India.  Ample provision is being made this time to avoid the mistakes of the past.  But I must refuse to be deterred from a clear course; because it may be attended by violence totally unintended and in spite of extraordinary efforts that are being made to prevent it.  At the same time I must make my position clear.  Nothing can possibly prevent a Satyagrahi from doing his duty because of the frown of the authorities.  I would risk, if necessary, a million lives so long as they are voluntary sufferers and are innocent, spotless victims.  It is the mistakes of the people that matter in a Satyagraha campaign.  Mistakes, even insanity must be expected from the strong and the powerful, and the moment of victory has come when there is no retort to the mad fury of the powerful, but a voluntary, dignified and quiet submission but not submission to the will of the authority that has put itself in the wrong.  The secret of success lies therefore in holding every English life and the life of every officer serving the Government as sacred as those of our own dear ones.  All the wonderful experience I have gained now during nearly 40 years of conscious existence, has convinced me that there is no gift so precious as that of life.  I make bold to say that the moment the Englishmen feel that although they are in India in a hopeless minority, their lives are protected against harm not because of the matchless weapons of destruction which are at their disposal, but because Indians refuse to take the lives even of those whom they may consider to be utterly in the wrong that moment will see a transformation in the English nature in its relation to India and that moment will also be the moment when all the destructive cutlery that is to be had in India will begin to rust.  I know that this is a far-off vision.  That cannot matter to me.  It is enough for me to see the light and to act up to it, and it is more than enough when I gain companions in the onward march.  I have claimed in private conversations with English friends that it is because of my incessant preaching of the gospel of non-violence and my having successfully demonstrated its practical utility that so far the forces of violence, which are undoubtedly in existence in connection with the Khilafat movement, have remained under complete control.