Whoever enjoys something through en- enchantment escapes from the hubris implicit in the consciousness of happiness, since, in a certain sense, the happiness that he knows he possesses is not his. Here magic appears as an exception, the only one that allows someone to be happy and to know that he is. Someone who is happy cannot know that he is the subject of happiness is not a subject per se and does not obtain the form of consciousness or of a conscience, not even a good one. This means that happiness has a paradoxical relationship with its subject. That the bond linking magic and happiness is not simply immoral, that it can indeed testify to a higher ethics, is shown in the ancient maxim that whoever realizes he is happy has already ceased to be so. We cannot evoke the true spirit of sacrifice and valour, so long as we are not free. It came to enable India to play its due part at the present critical juncture It is not a happy position for a big country like India to be merely helping with money and material obtained willy-nilly from her while the United Nations are conducting the war. The proposal for the withdrawal of British power did not come out of anger. Our quarrel is not with the British people, we fight their imperialism. It means that they will exchange one slavery for another. This hatred would even make them welcome the Japanese. The people make no distinction between British imperialism and the British people. The people say they are disgusted with their behaviour. I have noticed that there is hatred towards the British among the people. Then, there is the question of your attitude towards the British.
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